New Britain. A jeep ploughs its way through rough country climbing up a steep incline among the ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Arawe
Accession Number 016336
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker Dick, Harold George
Place made Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Arawe
Date made 15 December 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

New Britain. A jeep ploughs its way through rough country climbing up a steep incline among the palm trees that fringe the Arawe Peninsula. The invading American forces soon overcame opposition from the Japanese defenders, whom they pursued into the hills. The scene of desolation caused by Allied bombing attacks and heavy strafing fire was magnified by the ravages of giant grasshoppers which had mangled the green fronds of the coconut palms.