PAPUA. 1942-08-18. DAMAGED AND LITTERED RUNWAY OF SEVEN MILE AERODROME NEAR PORT MORESBY AFTER A ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number 026270
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Fisher, Thomas
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Description

PAPUA. 1942-08-18. DAMAGED AND LITTERED RUNWAY OF SEVEN MILE AERODROME NEAR PORT MORESBY AFTER A RAID BY 24 JAPANESE BOMBERS. ONE MAN WAS KILLED AND THIRTEEN INJURED; FOUR AIRCRAFT DESTROYED AND SEVERAL DAMAGED.