MATAPI CRATER, NEW BRITAIN, 1945-09-15. OVERSHADOWED BY THE CRATER IS THIS SMALL JAPANESE ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain
Accession Number 096878
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

MATAPI CRATER, NEW BRITAIN, 1945-09-15. OVERSHADOWED BY THE CRATER IS THIS SMALL JAPANESE CEMETERY WHERE LIE BURIED JAPANESE SOLDIERS KILLED BY ALLIED BOMBING. IT ALSO CONTAINS, ACCORDING TO NATIVE INFORMATION, APPROXIMATELY 30 AUSTRALIANS.