LIEUT. GENERAL R.L. EICHELBERGER AND GENERAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY INSPECT A JAP PILLBOX NEAR BUNA. ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area, Buna
Accession Number 014093
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Bottomley, Clifford
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area, Buna
Date made 14 January 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

LIEUT. GENERAL R.L. EICHELBERGER AND GENERAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY INSPECT A JAP PILLBOX NEAR BUNA. IT'S RESISTANCE PARTIALLY OVERCOME BY TANKS, THE PILLBOX WAS SILENCED BY ALLIED TROOPS WHO PULLED AWAY THE COVERING AND KILLED THE GUNNERS WITH GRENADES, TOMMY GUNS AND RIFLES. (NEGATIVE BY BOTTOMLEY).