53 items in this album on 3 pages.
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Australian Army engineers with a captured Daihatsu-class landing craft, Milne Bay, Sep 1942 | RAAF Squadron Leader Keith W “Bluey” Truscott taxiing his P-40E Kittyhawk along the Marston Mats at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Sep 1942. | Frank Forde, Douglas MacArthur, Thomas Blamey, George Kenney, Cyril Clowes, and Kenneth Walker at Seven Mile Drome, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 12 Oct 1942 | Soldiers of US 32nd Division probing a Japanese foxhole near Buna, New Guinea, Dec 1942; note M1 Garand rifles |
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B-17 Flying Fortress bomber 'Pluto' at Port Moresby, Australian Papua, 1942-1943; nose art by Ernie Vandal | USAAF A-20 Havoc aircraft attacking a Japanese airfield at a low altitude, Lae, New Guinea, circa 1943; note G4M bomber on the ground | General Thomas Blamey and Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger, Buna, Australian Papua, 14 Jan 1943 | Thomas Blamey and Robert Eichelberger, Buna, Australian Papua, 14 Jan 1943 |
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A Jeep brought litters to the B-17F Fortress “The Old Man” of the 65th Bomb Squadron shortly after landing at Dobodura, New Guinea, Mar 8 1943. The B-17 was attacked by 13 Japanese fighters during a photo-recon mission over Gasmata, New Britain | A-20A Havoc “Hell & Fire” of the 89th Bombardment Squadron at 3-Mile Airstrip of the Port Moresby Aerodrome complex, Australian Papua New Guinea, Jan-May 1943. | US Army radioman Corporal John Robbins operating his SCR 188, Dobodura, New Guinea, 9 May 1943 | US Army anti-aircraft gun crew manning their 3-inch M3 AA gun at New Fighter Strip, Dobodura, New Guinea, 17 May 1943 |
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B-17E Fortress “Sally” at 7-Mile Aerodrome, Port Moresby, New Guinea, May 22 1943. This was the personal transportation aircraft for LGen George Kenney, commander of Allied Air Forces, Southwest Pacific Area. | A-20 Havoc food supplies transport aircraft 'Steak and Eggs' at Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 | A-20 Havoc food supplies transport aircraft 'Steak and Eggs' at Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 | Actor Gary Cooper with pilots of 90th Squadron of USAAF 3rd Bomb Group and B-25D bomber 'Here's Howe', Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 |
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Actress Phyllis Brooks with a B-25 bomber, Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 | Airmen of USAAF 3rd Bomb Group, Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 | Destroyed M3A1 light tank, Buna, Australian Papua, mid-1943 | George Kenney at the '3rd Slug Bar' officer club at Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 |
53 items in this album on 3 pages.