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Indigenous Plant

Date: 12 02 1943
Description: An Intelligence Officer smiles as he holds an indigenous plant with fruit on it used for food. A building is behind him with two signs, "Operations" and "O...
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Wrecker Stuck in the Mud

Date: 01 24 1944
Description: "Beach Road," Robert Doyle's caption in the Milwaukee Journal said it best, "Saidor travel Bureau never reports roads impassable as long as wheels a...
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"Yank's Delight"

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Elevated view of three soldiers working on the engine of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The plane h...
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"Hot-To-Go"

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: A soldier sits in a bulldozer parked under the nose of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Another man i...
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Allied Officers' Club

Date: 02 05 1944
Description: View from road of the exterior of the Allied Officers' Club in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). It is built on posts above the wate...

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