Photos Taken in Australian New Guinea

86 items in this album on 5 pages.


Enlisted pilots of the Japanese Navy Tainan Air Group, Lae, New Guinea, Jun 1942	Portrait of Saburo Sakai cropped from a Japanese Navy Tainan Air Group group portrait, Lae, New Guinea, Jun 1942; note autograph

Parafrag bombs falling in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 1940s	US B-25 bombers dropping parafrag bombs over a Japanese airfield at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 1943

A PBY-5 Catalina of US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-11 on the Sepik River in Australian New Guinea bringing supplies to a coast-watcher working in the area, Jan 1943	Actor Gary Cooper with a B-25 Mitchell bomber, Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943

B-24 Liberator of the 43rd Bomb Group during a bombing run over the major Japanese base at Salamaua, Australian New Guinea, Aug 13, 1943.	Wrecked aircraft and Jeep, New Georgia, 1943

United States Army paratroopers dropped from C-47 Skytrains parachuting into Nazdab, New Guinea behind a smoke screen, 5 Sep 1943.	No. 4 Squadron RAAF pilots posing in front of Boomerang aircraft 'On the Job', Nadzab, New Guinea, 5 Oct 1943; L to R: Black, Brough, David Murrie, Philip Simpson, Chambers, and Rayson

A bomb exploding off port quarter of a Japanese cargo ship in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943; note Haguro in center distance and USAAF 3rd Bomb Group B-25 bomber in lower left; photo 1 of 2	A bomb exploding off port quarter of a Japanese cargo ship in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943; note Haguro in center distance and USAAF 3rd Bomb Group B-25 bomber in lower left; photo 1 of 2

B-25D Mitchell bomber of the 13th Bomb Squadron departing Simpson Harbor after an attack, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943	Haguro under air attack by USAAF 3rd Bomb Group, Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943

Japanese cargo ships under attack, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943	USAAF 3rd Bomb Group aircraft attacking Haguro and other ships in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943, photo 1 of 2

USAAF 3rd Bomb Group aircraft attacking Haguro and other ships in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943, photo 2 of 2	Japanese freighter exploding after being hit by a bomb, Rabaul, New Britain, Nov 1943

Jeeps driving in muddy terrain, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 1943	B-25 Mitchell bomber flying low above a Japanese transport during a raid on Rabaul, New Britain, circa late 1943