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Pictures of the Bougainville
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| Members of
No. 5 Platoon, A Company, 1st New Guinea Infantry Battalion, escort a Japanese prisoner seized at a hut near gardens east of Barara, 23 March 1945. (AWM 079827) |
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| Captain Francis Watson provides front line dental attention to Lieutenant Leonard Goodwin
MC, 4th Battalion, at Pearl Ridge, 15 February 1945. (AWM 018125) |
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| A cross hewn from rough forest timber is conveyed by an Australian infantryman to a forward position to
mark the burial place of an Australian killed in action, Tsimba area, north
Bougainville, 27 February 1945. (AWM 078776) |
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| Members of the Army Air Maintenance Company, working in conjunction with the
RAAF, drop supplies to forward troops in
the Mosgetta area, 2 March 1945: (left to right) Lieutenant A Minkie, Warrant
Officer K Thorne, Private B Higgins, Private A Corrie and Private R Nicholls. (AWM 078197) |
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| Private John Bavier and Signalman John Iles of the Far Eastern Liaison Office (FELO) broadcast a surrender message to Japanese soldiers on nearby Smith's Hill, Pearl Ridge, central Bougainville, 7 March 1945. Pte Bavier was born in Yokohama, Japan, and performed the role of interpreter.
(AWM 079733) |
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