NEW GUINEA. GONA. ALLIED PLANES BOMB JAPANESE POSITIONS IN THE BUSH NEAR GONA. BOMBS WERE ...

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Accession Number 013754/15
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Silk, George
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Northern Province, Gona
Date made 8 December 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

NEW GUINEA. GONA. ALLIED PLANES BOMB JAPANESE POSITIONS IN THE BUSH NEAR GONA. BOMBS WERE RELEASED WHILE THE PLANES WERE STILL A FEW HUNDRED YARDS BEHIND THE AUSTRALIAN FRONT LINES. BOMBS SCREAMED ACROSS AUSTRALIAN POSITIONS INTO THE JAPANESE HELD STRONG- POSTS.