PARATROOPS LAND AT NAZAB. AN AUSTRALIAN, GUNNER ANDERSON, ASSISTS GUNNER GRIBBEN, ANOTHER ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Lae Markham River Area, Upper Markham River Area
Accession Number 015699
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Dick, Harold George
Place made New Guinea
Date made 15 September 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

PARATROOPS LAND AT NAZAB. AN AUSTRALIAN, GUNNER ANDERSON, ASSISTS GUNNER GRIBBEN, ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN, TO PUT ON HIS PARACHUTE BEFORE THEY AND OTHER AIRBORNE AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERYMEN BOARDED THE TRANSPORT PLANES WHICH FLEW THEM AND A GREAT FORCE OF AMERICAN PARATROOPS TO THE MARKHAM VALLEY. THE AUSTRALIAN GUNS WERE ALSO DROPPED BY PARACHUTE.