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Injured soldiers are helped and carried on stretchers. Warfare in the jungle. New Guinea, 1943

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Injured soldiers are helped and carried on stretchers. Warfare in the jungle. New Guinea, 1943

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1943 AD (C20th AD)

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Clip 4 from the 1943 film 'Assault on Salamaua', about Australian forces at war with the Japanese in Papua New Guinea. In this clip, stretcher cases carried down the Uliap Creek. V45794 Pte Gordon Stuart McDonald 58/59 Bn of Kyabram, VIC carried on stretcher over Kunda bridge. Famous scene of wounded soldier VX132355 Private William Oswald Wallace Johnson 58/59 Battalion (Bn) of Trafalgar, VIC, being helped across a creek and led along a muddy track by VX89711 Sergeant (Sgt) Gordon Raymond Charles Ayre 58/59 Bn of Shepparton, VIC. C-47 Dakota aircraft dropping supplies over mountainous country. Vickers gun crew fire towards Komiatum track from emplacement on Namling ledge. Crew of a 2 inch mortar fire from emplacement hidden in Kunai grass into Orodubi. 2/3rd Independent Company men move along track through Kunai grass. Vickers gun firing. NX76248 Lt Jack Edward (Johnny) Lewin looking through binoculars at the effect of the fire on the Komiatum track. Vickers gun crew prepare to fire from an emplacement on ambush knoll. VX59445 Lt Hubert Leo (Hugh) Egan 2/3 Ind Coy looking through telescope as Vickers gun fires.

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