PAPUA. NEARING THE END OF THE PAPUAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPAN. AN IMPROVISED BRIDGE MADE BY ALLIED ...

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Accession Number 014216
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Bottomley, Clifford
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area, Sanananda
Date made 25 January 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

PAPUA. NEARING THE END OF THE PAPUAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPAN. AN IMPROVISED BRIDGE MADE BY ALLIED TROOPS TO ENABLE CONTACT TO BE MAINTAINED WITH THE RETREATING ENEMY AT SANANANDA. THE PHOTOS SHOW CLEARLY THE TYPE OF COUNTRY THROUGH WHICH ALLIED TROOPS HAD TO FIGHT THEIR WAY.