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The Bougainville Campaign in
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| Senior Officers of the RAAF, AIF and RNZAF at Piva airfield, Torokina, plan an air strike in January 1945: (left to right) RNZAF Squadron Leaders CR Bush, HR Wigley, and AT Vanderpump, RAAF Flight Lieutenant Ian Curtis and Major David Daniell, Australian Air Liaison.
(AWM OG2094) |
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| Members of a contact patrol from the 42nd Battalion negotiate a deep section of swamp
during their patrol towards enemy territory, south Bougainville, 21 January 1945.
(AWM 078546) |
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| Medical orderly Private Hector Macdonald gives a drink of water to Private Kenneth Merritt of the 42nd Battalion, wounded during an attack on the camp by Japanese infiltrators, South Bougainville, 21 January 1945. (AWM 078556) |
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| Supplies for Australian units in the area are loaded on to trucks by the 4th Supply Depot Platoon, Torokina, 21 January 1945. (AWM 078835) |
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| Australian infantry heading towards forward positions in central Bougainville climb almost
3,000 metres over mountainous country similar to that experienced in the Owen Stanley Range in Papua, using steps hacked into the slopes of the hills,
15 February 1945. (AWM 018777) |
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