P03903.002 Accession Number: P03903.002

Description

An informal portrait of P171 Warrant Officer II (WOII), later Lieutenant (Lt), Adrian J Leyden (left), Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU) and Lt Hank Griswold, US Army Signal Corps, taken at a remote village in a mountainous area. WOII Leyden made a long patrol to link up with this unit which had set up a temporary base in order to test some new radio equipment which they successfully used to communicate with Finschhafen Headquarters.

Details

Accession Number
P03903.002
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Transparency
Physical Description
Format: 4x5"
Support: Acetate
Date Made
c 1944
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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