MOMOTE, LOS NEGROS ISLAND, ADMIRALTY ISLANDS. 1944-03-18. LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN E. G. WRIGHT, ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands
Accession Number OG0779
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Harrison, John Thomas
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

MOMOTE, LOS NEGROS ISLAND, ADMIRALTY ISLANDS. 1944-03-18. LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN E. G. WRIGHT, ROSEWOOD, QLD, A COOK, IN THE FOXHOLE IN WHICH HE SPENT HIS FIRST NIGHT ASHORE. RAAF MEMBERS OF THE UNIT WERE HIGH IN THEIR PRAISES OF THE COOKS, WHO, ALTHOUGH THE LANDING WAS MADE UNDER FIRE QUICKLY HAD HOT FOOD READY.