Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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Description: | Soldiers working on slit trench in the rain on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They all hail from Michigan. ... |
Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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Description: | Corporal Marcell Vanden Heuval, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, poses with his coati named "Speedy" perched on his shoulder. He was a cook at the military cam... |
Date: | 08 19 1943 |
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Description: | Two soldiers inspect a knife at Kiriwina Beach Camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They are standing in ... |
Date: | 08 20 1943 |
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Description: | Four soldiers from Wisconsin look at a cat held by an indigenous man on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Name... |
Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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Description: | Corporal Eugene Cierzynski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (left) instructs Corporal Edgar Hourscht of Trosky, Minnesota (right), on how to operate a D-8 Caterpill... |
Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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Description: | Major Howard Pagel (left) of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, and Captain Walter King (right) of Waco, Texas, stand together in front of the airfield aid station at t... |
Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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Description: | The sawmill for the engineers at the military camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldiers are just ... |
Date: | 08 24 1943 |
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Description: | An indigenous man climbs a coconut palm to harvest coconuts on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). His feet are ... |
Date: | 08 24 1943 |
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Description: | An indigenous woman wearing a grass shirt sits on a carved boat with Robert Doyle on the shore of Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present d... |
Date: | 08 29 1943 |
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Description: | Two Wisconsin cousins, (left) Corporal Englund Johnson, bomber waist gunner, of Park Falls and (right) Sergeant Donald Englund, airplane engine mechanic, o... |
Date: | 08 31 1943 |
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Description: | Group portrait of war correspondents at Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Robert Doyle is in the center. |
Date: | 09 04 1943 |
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Description: | War correspondents in Port Moresby wait in the back of a jeep the night before a paratroop landing near Lae, a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea (presen... |
Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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Description: | Paratroopers at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, preparing to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. Lae is a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea... |
Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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Description: | Paratroopers at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, preparing to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. Lae is a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea... |
Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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Description: | Military aircraft at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, preparing to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. The aircraft in the foreground is named ... |
Date: | 09 19 1943 |
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Description: | Wisconsin paratroopers in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), pose holding a captured Japanese marine banner and pistol they brought b... |
Date: | 09 29 1943 |
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Description: | Bob Eunson of Associated Press at Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), dressed in a "combat suit." He is wearing a pack on his back and... |
Date: | 09 29 1943 |
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Description: | A group of 32nd "Red Arrow" Division officers at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia, for the awarding of the Distinguished Service Cross, the second high... |
Date: | 09 29 1943 |
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Description: | The interior of the "Sad Shack" at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Two men are standing and two men are sitting in chairs. Personal items such as por... |
Date: | 10 22 1943 |
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Description: | Lieutenant Colonel Harry J. Bullis of Portland, Michigan, poses next to the sign for the "Ale and Quail Club" on a military base in Port Moresby, Australia... |
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