NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY. AN ALLIED VESSEL WAS HIT DURING THE 14 APRIL 1943 JAPANESE RAID ON MILNE ...

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Accession Number 014797
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Milne Bay
Date made 7 May 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Description

NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY. AN ALLIED VESSEL WAS HIT DURING THE 14 APRIL 1943 JAPANESE RAID ON MILNE BAY. PICTURE SHOWS L. GOUGH OF LONDON, WHO WAS CREDITED WITH THE SHOOTING DOWN OF A JAP DIVE BOMBER. GOUGH WAS MANNING A GUN ON THE UPPER DECK OF THE VESSEL. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN).