 Personalities,
Movie Stars, & American Ingenuity |
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Whilst the European theatre boys enjoyed hot women, cold beer and warm beds, their Pacific counterparts experienced no women, hot beer and damp tents. |
The officers in the Headquarters detachment of the
3rd Attack Group went to extraordinary measures to have hot-water showers
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Jack Fox was a civilian technical representative for North American. He often flew actual combat missions in New Guinea. |
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| Jack Fox poses for the camera, Charters Towers, 1942. The base was hot, and could be humid or dry depending on the time of year. | The natives were considered an oddity by US forces, especially when their women went around bare-breasted. | The early morning mists of the camp area for the 3rd Attack group have dissipated at Nadzab in New Guinea's Markham Valley, some time mid 1943. |
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| The scoreboard outside the operations hut for the 3rd Attack at Charters towers early in the piece, at Charters Towers in 1942. | In the early morning a 3rd Attack B-25 crew at Durand Drome wait for a mission. The looks in their faces say it all . . . |
Hollywood actor Gary Cooper on stage at Dobodura. |
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General Howard Ramey, Commander of Fifth Bomber Command, before he disappeared . . . learn how |
Hollywood actress Carole Landis in New Guinea 1944. |
Apart from General Douglas MacArthur, see other luminiaries of the Fifth Air Force . . . |
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Hollywood actress Patti Thomas as part of a 1943 USO tour of New Guinea. |
Comedian Joe E. Brown on stage at Seven-Mile |
Thanksgiving service, Christmas morning 1942 |
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Wards Drome under
construction |
"Shanty" O'Neill - a character
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American ingenuity - a home-made washing machine ! |
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| An Awards ceremony for the brass - read these character sketches ! |
Fusing a 500-pound bomb at Port Moresby on Liberator Big Emma |
Read all about the wartime history of the Papua Hotel, including how it was looted by Australian soldiers ! |