NEW GUINEA. AN AUSTRALIAN MOUNTAIN GUN BOMBARDING JAPANESE POSITIONS ON MOUNT TAMBU FROM WHICH ...

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Accession Number 015613
Collection type Photograph
Object type 3x4", Nitrate, Silver Gelatin
Physical description 3x4", Nitrate, Silver Gelatin
Maker Dick, Harold George
Place made New Guinea1: Mubo Salamaua Area, Mount Tambu
Date made 30 August 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Description

NEW GUINEA. AN AUSTRALIAN MOUNTAIN GUN BOMBARDING JAPANESE POSITIONS ON MOUNT TAMBU FROM WHICH THE ENEMY WERE DRIVEN, ENABLING ALLIED TROOPS TO ADVANCE ON SALAMAUA. THE POSITION FOR THE GUN, AND A FIELD OF FIRE HAD TO BE HACKED IN THE JUNGLE. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK).