Rescued after living ten and 14 months respectively with natives in New Britain, three American ...

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Accession Number 014603
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea1
Date made 7 April 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Rescued after living ten and 14 months respectively with natives in New Britain, three American aviators and an Australian were welcomed at a New Guinea base. Left to right (marked with crosses) Pte Dale E. Bordner of Ohio, Pte. M C Hughes of Texas, Lt Eugene D Wallace of California and Pte. John Leslie Stokie, a coastwatcher and member of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, of Colac, Victoria.