New Guinea. Thunderbolt fighter planes on patrol in New Guinea. These fighters, twice as heavy as ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number 015830
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made At sea
Date made c 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

New Guinea. Thunderbolt fighter planes on patrol in New Guinea. These fighters, twice as heavy as a Sptifire, heavily armed and armoured, and with a speed of 400 miles per hour were recently in action against the Japanese for the first time in the South West Pacific.