New Guinea. Cooling the barrel of a Rolls Royce 2 pounder gun on an RAN Fairmile, during strafing ...

Accession Number 017223
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea1
Date made 1 June 1944
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 Guinea. Cooling the barrel of a Rolls Royce 2 pounder gun on an RAN Fairmile, during strafing operations on Japanese positions on the north coast. Wielding the bucket is Ordinary Seaman R. K. Perry of Roseville, NSW.