EASTERN AUSTRALIA. U.S. ARMY MANOEUVRES. U.S. TROOPS LEARNING TO CROSS JUNGLE STREAMS. THIS PHOTO ...

Accession Number 015653
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Turner, Harry
Place made Australia
Date made 3 September 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

EASTERN AUSTRALIA. U.S. ARMY MANOEUVRES. U.S. TROOPS LEARNING TO CROSS JUNGLE STREAMS. THIS PHOTO SHOWS FOUR METHODS OF CROSSING A CREEK: BY A RAFT MADE OUT OF TIMBER FOUND ON THE SPOT, BY AN AMPHIBIOUS JEEP, BY A ROPE LADDER SUSPENDED ACROSS THE WATER, AND IN THE BACKGROUND, BY A FLYING FOX. (NEGATIVE BY H. TURNER).