New Britain. A tractor advances through the coconut grove at Arawe towards Japanese positions ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Arawe
Accession Number 016335
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Portrait
Physical description Black & white, Portrait
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 tractor advances through the coconut grove at Arawe towards Japanese positions further inland. Bombing and strafing attacks by Allied aircraft had caused havoc throughout the sector, and the scene of desolation was magnified by the ravage of grasshoppers. Note how the fronds of the coconut palms have been mangled and the signs of battering on the trunks of the palms.