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A barge seen from the front shows mortar being prepared in position on barge. A new assault ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
A barge seen from the front shows mortar being prepared in position on barge. A new assault invasion course for mortar bomb companies is in progress at Madang. The mortars are used, from small landing...017911
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Able Seaman John Paterson of Ballarat, Vic, has been tattooed in almost every port he has ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Able Seaman John Paterson of Ballarat, Vic, has been tattooed in almost every port he has visited. His twenty indelible scenes and figures were applied in ports of Africa, India, England, Ceylon and A...019026
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Aitape Area, New Guinea. Laying new signal wire through the washed-out mouth of a river are ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape Area, New Guinea. Laying new signal wire through the washed-out mouth of a river are Private Len Kelly of Burnie, Tasmania and Sergeant Ken Gardner of Alberton, South Australia.018114
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Aitape, New Guinea. A company of Aussies returning from a patrol of the forward area, pass ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. A company of Aussies returning from a patrol of the forward area, pass through a belt of coconut trees, which show evidence of heavy strafing.018001
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Aitape, New Guinea. A human chain of men in a forward area pass boxes of ammunition from one to ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. A human chain of men in a forward area pass boxes of ammunition from one to the other as the most expeditious means of transport in a forward area.018210
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Aitape, New Guinea. Almost too sheer to climb, a mountain in the Aitape area has been surmounted ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. Almost too sheer to climb, a mountain in the Aitape area has been surmounted by 846 steps known as the 'Golden Stairway'. These steps enable the troops to scale the mountain to att...018205
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Aitape, New Guinea. Almost too sheer to climb, a mountain in the Aitape area has been surmounted ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. Almost too sheer to climb, a mountain in the Aitape area has been surmounted by 846 steps known as the 'Golden Stairway'. These steps enable the troops to scale the mountain to att...018204
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Aitape, New Guinea. A loaded and covered Matilda tank named Castlemaine, serial no. 82135, of 12 ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. A loaded and covered Matilda tank named Castlemaine, serial no. 82135, of 12 Troop, C Squadron, 2/4th Armoured Regiment, used in the forward area of Matapau, is pulled up by the to...018010
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Aitape, New Guinea. An Australian patrol starts out on a day's Japanese hunt. Note the strongly ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. An Australian patrol starts out on a day's Japanese hunt. Note the strongly reinforced pillbox in the rear. Enemy attacks at night time are frequent at these strongholds.018207
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Aitape, New Guinea. An Australian section patrol about to leave a forward area headquarters bound ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. An Australian section patrol about to leave a forward area headquarters bound for Japanese held jungle being briefed on terrain by an Intelligence Officer. Models are made to scale...018008
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Aitape, New Guinea. A party of engineers, working nearby, help out a cobber in a jeep, who has ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. A party of engineers, working nearby, help out a cobber in a jeep, who has become bogged halfway across a stream. Note the chains on the tyres for extra traction.018004
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Aitape, New Guinea. As a jeep ambulance, serial no. 135167, waits on the edge of the jungle, for ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. As a jeep ambulance, serial no. 135167, waits on the edge of the jungle, for wounded to be brought out, a transport plane flies over and drops medical supplies. A metal canopy with...018102
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Aitape, New Guinea. Australian engineers digging the side out of a moutain to cut a road in the ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. Australian engineers digging the side out of a moutain to cut a road in the sector. Hundreds of tons of dirt were shifted by these men, with pick and shovel, in record time.018055
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Aitape, New Guinea. Australian engineers hacking a road out of a mountain-side with pick and ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. Australian engineers hacking a road out of a mountain-side with pick and shovel.018062
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Aitape, New Guinea. Australian troops erecting a pre-fabricated bridge over a river close to ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. Australian troops erecting a pre-fabricated bridge over a river close to Aitape. With levers and sledge-hammers Private Jack Bates of Brisbane, Qld, and Sapper Fred Beeton of Wahro...018071
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Aitape, New Guinea. Australian water carriers with water tins strapped to their backs returning ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. Australian water carriers with water tins strapped to their backs returning from the backbreaking trip down the 'Golden Stairway', the name given to 846 steps surmounting a ridge i...018215
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Aitape, New Guinea. A water spring is tapped and transported from a nearby hill by making an ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. A water spring is tapped and transported from a nearby hill by making an overhead pipeline from hollow bamboo, to supply this first aid post with a constant supply of running water...018101
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Aitape, New Guinea. Bombardier Geoff Nicholls of Melbourne, Vic, pumping water into tank for jeep ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. Bombardier Geoff Nicholls of Melbourne, Vic, pumping water into tank for jeep driver Don McKay of Sydney, NSW. Springs are tapped for water which is stored in a big canvas tank, in...018110
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Aitape, New Guinea. Bringing pile-driver into position on the edge of the river, these Aussie ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. Bringing pile-driver into position on the edge of the river, these Aussie engineers are high up the pole. An immense river is in the background.018068
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Aitape, New Guinea. Bringing pile-driver into position on the edge of the river, these Aussie ...
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Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Aitape, New Guinea. Bringing pile-driver into position on the edge of the river, these Aussie engineers are high up the pole.018069