New Britain. A Jeep is being loaded aboard a landing craft preparatory to setting out on the ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Arawe
Accession Number 016347
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
Date made c 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 is being loaded aboard a landing craft preparatory to setting out on the invasion. The immense preparation necessary for the Allied landing at Arawe emphasised the large amount of transport required to enable a modern army to undertake an invasion.