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Page 8 of the Pictorial
record of the Bougainville Campaign.
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| The beginning of the funicular railway constructed by 23rd Field Company, Royal Australian
Engineers, to transport supplies over the ridge to forward troops, Barges Hill, central
Bougainville, 26 June 1945. (AWM 093368) |
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| Men
of 3rd Australian Division Signals construct an 'H' piece to run lines beneath the new Auster airstrip under construction near the Mobiai River, 13 July 1945. (AWM 093903) |
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| Flight Lieutenant Norman Sandford, Allied Intelligence Bureau, shakes hands with locals
before leaving for Torokina on the motor launch ML1327, on the occasion of the rescue of
Netherlands East Indies army personnel who had been prisoners of war of the Japanese,
Tinian,18July 1945.(AWM 094756) |
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| Corporal Jack Rickards and Private Ena Townsend marry in the chapel
of 2/1st Australian General Hospital at Torokina on 15 August 1945. (AWM 095030) |
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| In the first contact
between the Japanese surrender envoy and Australian troops on
Bougainville, Major Otsu and Private Takeshita, who is carrying a white flag
and Japanese flag, are met by the Australian party on the banks of the Mivo
River, 18 August 1945. (AWM 095039). |
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| Members of the crew of the corvette HMAS Lithgow watch from the gun deck during the interrogation of a Japanese envoy from Lieutenant General Masatane Kanda, 17th Japanese Army commander, during surrender negotiations at sea off Buin on
20 August 1945. (AWM 095097) |
