New Guinea 1942-1945

Maps

Allied plan for attack on Buna-Gona position	Battle of Buna	Kokoda Trail - The Japanese advance	Kokoda Trail - The Australian advance
Map of Gona-Buna area, Papua	Map showing Kokoda Trail, Papua	New Guinea during the Second World War

General New Guinea

US Officer visits Papuan Village, 1942	Remains of a Zero, New Guinea	Australian troops in a foxhole, Papua	Australian patrol enters the jungle, New Guinea
Landing petrol, Papua	Japanese sniper's nest, New Guinea	US Troops hunt snipers, New Guinea	Fully loaded US troops, New Guinea
Japanese landing craft, New Guinea	Australian Heavy Artillery, New Guinea	US Troops reach Port Moresby, 1942	Japanese POWs from Guadalcanal and Papua
Japanese bombing raid on Port Moresby	Japanese destroyer sinking off New Guinea	Madang, New Guinea	Port Moresby Harbour
105mm Howitzer airlifted to New Guinea	Supplies being air-dropped, New Guinea

Kokoda Trail

Papuan Porters, 1942	Australian 25pdr in the jungle	Australian Soldiers on the Kokoda Trail, 1942	25-pounder on the Kokoda Trail
Mud on the Kokoda Trail	Australian and Japanese signposts, Kokoda Trail	The Australian flag being raised over Kokoda

Milne Bay

Australian Troops at Milne Bay, 1942	Milne Bay, eastern tip of New Guinea	Type 95 Ha Go light tanks, Milne Bay 1942	Japanese Invasion Barge, Milne Bay
Furthest Japanese Advance, Milne Bay

Buna

US Troops mopping up near Buna	Japanese casualties on the beach at Buna	Australian mortar firing during final assault on Buna	Japanese naval gun, Buna
Stuart Tank supports the assault on Buna

Gona

Japanese wounded at Gona, Papua

Sanananda

Japanese guns captured at Sanananda

Native stretcher bearers, Sanananda

US and Australian troops moving signal gear, Sanananda

People

Major General Cyril A. Clowes	General T. Blamey and General MacArthur	Native Papuan of the Upper Purari Valley	Major-General E. F. Herring
Lt. General S. F. Rowell

Wau

Australian troops reach Wau, January 1943

Salamaua

Main street of Salamaua

Guinea Airways hanger at Salamaua on fire

Pre-war Salamaua

Mandated Airways hanger at Salamaua after Japanese Raid