ROAD BUILDERS FOLLOWING UP THE ADVANCING ALLIED TROOPS, TANKS SLITHERED ALONG THIS PATH IN THE ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area, Buna
Accession Number 014095
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Bottomley, Clifford
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area, Buna
Date made 14 January 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

ROAD BUILDERS FOLLOWING UP THE ADVANCING ALLIED TROOPS, TANKS SLITHERED ALONG THIS PATH IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE JAPS AND INFANTRY, CARRYING HEAVY EQUIPMENT, OFTEN SANK TO THEIR KNEES IN MUD. OVER THE PARTIALLY MADE ROAD, GENERAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY, AND LIEUT GENERAL EICHELBERGER, WALK TOWARDS THE FRONT LINE. (NEGATIVE BY BOTTOMLEY).