NEW GUINEA. AN AUSTRALIAN PATROL MOVES FORWARD THROUGH SHATTERED TIMBER TO OBSERVATORY HILL, ...

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Accession Number 015512
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Short, Gordon Herbert
Place made New Guinea1: Mubo Salamaua Area, Mubo
Date made 11 August 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

NEW GUINEA. AN AUSTRALIAN PATROL MOVES FORWARD THROUGH SHATTERED TIMBER TO OBSERVATORY HILL, ALMOST DIRECTLY NORTH OF MUBO. THE ADVANCE WAS FACILITATED BY WHAT THEN WAS THE BIGGEST AIR BLITZ ON A SINGLE LAND TARGET IN NEW GUINEA AGAINST THE JAPS. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT).