Australian Army engineers with a captured Daihatsu-class landing craft, Milne Bay, Sep 1942Wrecked Japanese landing craft, Gavutu Beach, Guadalcanal, Aug-Sep 1942Dead Japanese soldiers and wrecked Daihatsu-class landing craft on Buna beach, New Guinea, 1943Two wrecked Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft at Scarlet Beach, Finschhafen, New Guinea, 17 Oct 1943, photo 1 of 2
Australian Army engineers with a captured Daihatsu-class landing craft, Milne Bay, Sep 1942Wrecked Japanese landing craft, Gavutu Beach, Guadalcanal, Aug-Sep 1942Dead Japanese soldiers and wrecked Daihatsu-class landing craft on Buna beach, New Guinea, 1943Two wrecked Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft at Scarlet Beach, Finschhafen, New Guinea, 17 Oct 1943, photo 1 of 2
Two wrecked Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft at Scarlet Beach, Finschhafen, New Guinea, 17 Oct 1943, photo 2 of 2Daihatsu-class landing craft, circa 1940sJapanese liaison party boarding destroyer USS Cummings as part of the occupation process at Higashi Harbor, Haha Jima, Bonin Islands, 14 Sep 1945. Note Daihatsu landing craft with white flag.Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft being used to transport cattle by Javanese, 28 Nov 1948
Two wrecked Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft at Scarlet Beach, Finschhafen, New Guinea, 17 Oct 1943, photo 2 of 2Daihatsu-class landing craft, circa 1940sJapanese liaison party boarding destroyer USS Cummings as part of the occupation process at Higashi Harbor, Haha Jima, Bonin Islands, 14 Sep 1945. Note Daihatsu landing craft with white flag.Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft being used to transport cattle by Javanese, 28 Nov 1948
Javanese natives operating Japanese-built Daihatsu-class landing craft, 28 Nov 1948
Javanese natives operating Japanese-built Daihatsu-class landing craft, 28 Nov 1948
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