Map of New Guinea, showing major coastal strategic regions of the 1940s

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Caption     Map of New Guinea, showing major coastal strategic regions of the 1940s ww2dbase
Date  1945
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Army via Wikimedia Commons
Link to Source    Link
 
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Added By C. Peter Chen
Photo Size 2,000 x 1,327 pixels



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1. Tadzie says:
7 Feb 2015 08:22:22 PM

Could you please send a map containing american ww2 relics in the highlands of Papua New Guinea? We would like to find hidden ww2 weapons and place them in museums else it might land in the arms of untrained villagers and could be harmful.

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