MOMOTE, LOS NEGROS ISLAND, ADMIRALTY ISLANDS. C. 1944-04. AFTER LUNCH SQUADRON LEADER IAN LOUDON, ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands
Accession Number OG1800
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Harrison, John Thomas
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

MOMOTE, LOS NEGROS ISLAND, ADMIRALTY ISLANDS. C. 1944-04. AFTER LUNCH SQUADRON LEADER IAN LOUDON, COMMANDING OFFICER OF NO. 76 (KITTYHAWK) SQUADRON RAAF, RELAXES NEAR THE CALM PACIFIC OCEAN. HE SITS ON THE TRUNK OF A GNARLED TREE AND DREAMS OF THOSE HAPPY DAYS AT PORT MORESBY BEFORE THE WAR WHEN HE WAS ONLY PREOCCUPIED WITH THE HARVESTING OF RUBBER AND WITH HIS BEST GIRL.