New Guinea
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32nd Division mortar crew in action during Battle for Buna 1942
32nd Infantry Division troops arriving at Port Moresby 1942
41st Division soldiers with Captured Japanese Flags in New Guinea
Aerial view as landing craft move through Tanahmerah Bay during the invasion of Hollandia April 22rd 1944
Aerial View as US Planes Bomb Japanese Ships at Rabaul Harbor
Aerial View Japanese Transport Hit New Guinea 1944
Aerial view of the opening stages of the assault on Hollandia on April 23, 1944
Aerial view of USAAF attack on a Japanese vessel near Lae 1943
Allied troops equipment land for Invasion of Dutch New Guinea. Model 1918 155mm Schneider Howitzer in the foreground
Allied troops set up 105mm howitzer in Depapre New Guinea 1944
Australian transport MV MacDhui burning in harbor after being hit during attack on Port Moresby by G4M1 Betty bombers from the 4th Kokutai 1942
Australian troops advance from Gona toward Buna New Guinea 1943
Australian troops of the 7th Division entering Lae
Australian wounded transported by log rafts in New Guinea
Bodies of fallen Japanese soldiers and a wrecked Daihatsu landing barge at Sanananda Point 1943
Carring wounded GI on Mount Tambu September 3, 1943
Dock landing ship shown somewhere in New Guinea with its deck loaded with small craft including LSTs DUKW, LVTs and LCMs 44
Gen. Eichelberger Examines Captured Japanese Gun in Hollandia
GI with Thompson submachine gun in fox hole Buna 22 February 1943
GIs Sgt Roof and Beatty Mt Tambu August 29, 1943
Hollandia Invasion
Infantrymen advance under the cover of an LVT as they search for Japanese during sweep across Middleburg Island, Dutch New Guinea 1944
Invasion troops haul supplies ashore at Hollandia
Japanese bombers Hollandia
Japanese infantrymen leaving a trench near Buna during fighting in New Guinea 1943
Japanese Landing Crafts At Buna Papua New Guinea
Japanese planes bomb US ship at Port Moresby
Japanese planes under attack on Wewak airfield
Japanese prisoners captured during final assault on Gona 1943
Japanese Transport Ship Bombed Off New Guinea 1944
Landing at Kamiri on Noemfoor Island July 1944
LCIs head for shore during Invasion of Hollandia 1944
LCVP Heads for Beach at Hollandia Operation Wreckless 22 April 1944
LST landing 32nd Division troops at Saidor, January 1944
LSTs at Tanahmerah Bay Hollandia Dutch New Guinea
LSTs landing Aussies East of Lae
LSTs move toward invasion beach at Saidor New Guinea 1944
LSTs Tadji New Guinea 1944
LVTs pass wreck of Japanese plane at Sentani, Hollandia April 1944
Marine Guards with Captured Japanese Ammo on New Britain
Marine patrol in native village Gurissu New Britain 1944
Parachute bombs fall on Japanes plane on airfield at Hollandia
Parafrag Bombs Fall on Rabauls Vunakanau Airfield
Paratroops Capture Lae Nadzab New Guinea 5 September 1943
Soldier captured Japanese Type 88 75mm Anti-Aircraft Gun Buna
Soldiers of the 96th Engineer Battalion filling sandbags used to form ramps for unloading supplies and equipment from landing craft in New Guinea 1942
Station hospital in New Guinea 15 January 1944
The final assault on Buna Australian mortar crew from HQ company 2/12th Battalion lays down a barrage as infantry advances to attack a Japanese pillbox, Giropa Point 1943
Troops Move Mortar Ammo for Attack in New Guinea
Troops of 32nd Division fire into Japanese dugout at Buna 1943
U.S Soldier in captured Japanese machine gun nest on New Guinea 1943
Unloading Piper L-4H Grasshopper on Wakde 1944
US and Australian troops inspect downed G4M at Lae 1943
US Cemetery No1 at Milne Bay New Guinea 1943
US invasion troops on Aitape Dutch New Guinea 1944
US Invasion Troops on Aitape New Guinea Beach
US radio crew sets up communications center just after landing on Hollandia 1944
US Signal Corps men advancing under fire on New Guinea
US soldiers digging air raid shelter in New Guinea 1944
US Soldiers Heat Rations over Fire near Buna, New Guinea
US soldiers move up to clear Japanese snipers from jungle foliage during mopping up operations in the area from Buna to Sanananda Point New Guinea 1943
US soldiers with captured 20mm Type 97 Japanese anti-tank rifle at Hollandia 1944
US troops advance under cover of Machine Gun in New Guinea 1944
US troops and LVT on Shore Korako New Guinea 1944
US troops and native porters cross stream in New Guinea 1942
US troops and vehicles along the invasion beach at Korako
US troops crawl thru clearing under sniper fire on New Guinea 1943
US troops debark from LST-66 at Tanahmerah Bay Hollandia
US troops in HBT camouflage uniforms with Japanese POWs in Hollandia
US troops man Anti Aircraft MG in New Guinea 1942
US troops man M2A1 105mm howitzer in Salamaua New Guinea 1943
US troops march thru village of Depapre 1944
US troops using Jeep to lay cable in New Guinea
US Troops With Captured Japanese Weapons, Flags New Guinea
US troops with Japanese Daihatsu Landing Craft in New Guinea 1942
US troops with M2A1 105mm Howitzer named "Green Death" in Wakde 1944
USAAF bombing of Japanese ships in Hansa Bay New Guinea 1943
USAAF bombing of Japanese ships in Hansa Bay, New Guinea 1943
USAAF Destruction Of Hollandia Airfield 1944
USS LSM-138 with invasion armada at Seeadler Harbor Los Negros, 7 October 1944
View of the Markham River Valley near the Japanese base at Lae after troopers of the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment landed to cut off the escape of 20000 Japanese from that base
Water Tank Built by U.S. Engineers in New Guinea Jungle. Dodge WC-12 in the foreground.
Wounded US troops loaded into barges at Salamaua 1943
New Guinea campaign January 1942 - August 1945