Photos Taken in Port Moresby | World War II Database


American officers Lieutenant Colonel Richard H. Carmichael, 19th Bomb Group Commanding Officer, Major General George C. Kenney, 5th Air Force Commanding Officer, and Brigadier General Kenneth N. Walker, V Bombing Command Commanding Officer at Port Moresby, Australian Papua, 1942	Major General George C. Kenney, commander of US 5th Air Force, and Brigadier General Kenneth N. Walker, commander of US V Bombing Command at Port Moresby, Australian Papua, 1942

Australian corvette HMAS Armidale in Port Moresby harbor, 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

B-17 Flying Fortress bomber 'Pluto' at Port Moresby, Australian Papua, 1942-1943; nose art by Ernie Vandal	B-17E bomber 'Lak-A-Nookie' of the US 43rd Bombardment Group, 63rd Bombing Squadron in a revetment at Jackson Field, Port Moresby, Australian Papua, 1942-1943

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.	B-17F Fortress “Talisman” warming up before take-off from Jackson’s Drome, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 5 Sep 1943. This plane carried Douglas MacArthur to and from the battle zones in New Guinea.

C-47 Skytrain transports loaded with paratroopers bound for the raid on Nadzab, New Guinea, 5 Sep 1943 at the Port Moresby 7-Mile Aerodrome. Note General MacArthur and General Kenney standing at the lower left.	Gen Douglas MacArthur shaking the hand of his pilot, Col Harry Hawthorne, after observing the airborne paratroop drop at Nazdab, New Guinea from his B-17F “Talisman.” 5 Sep 1943 photo at 7-Mile Aerodrome, Port Moresby, New Guinea.

B-24J Liberator with the 90th Bomb Group, the Jolly Rogers, at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1943.