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 by David Holdsworth University of PNG Press 2012 Softcover 32 pages Map, photos ISBN: 9980945818 Language: English  Order now at amazon.com Return to |
Papua New Guinea Battlefields Author David Holdsworth was written many photographic books of Papua New Guinea imagery. This book documents war wreckage Papua New Guinea during the early 1980s of war wreckage in Port Moresby, Rabaul, Wewak and Bougainville. Cover: G4M1 Betty 4698 abandoned at Kahili Airfield in southern Bougainville. Page 1: Papua New Guinea Battlefields text Page 2: Cape Wom memorial Page 3: Japanese 75mm AA gun at Cape Wom Page 4: (Upper) Japanese mountain gun Sepik (Lower) Japanese truck at Brandi High School Page 5: Japanese search light at Brandi High School Page 6: (Upper) Ki-21 Sally (Lower) Ki-61 Tony displayed at Wewak Page 7: (Upper) Nationalist Chinese memorial marker near Rabaul (Lower) Naval gun at Coastwatchers Lookout Page 8: (Upper) Barge Tunnel (Lower) Tunnel at Rabaul Page 9: (Upper) Singapore Crane (Lower) "Yamamoto Bunker" IJN anchor Page 10: (Upper) Japanese pillbox at Talwat on the Gazelle Peninsula (Lower) "Yamamoto Bunker" IJN flag Page 11: Japanese 140mm Naval Gun near Kavieng Page 12: New Ireland children playing with barbed wire roll Page 13: (Upper) Japanese tank at Rabaul (Lower) Japanese tank at Panapai in New Ireland. Page 14: Japanese ammunition found on Bougainville near the Buka Passage / Tinputz Road Page 15: (Upper) 76.2mm AA gun at Lae (Lower) Japanese 25mm AA gun triple at Coastwatcher's Memorial Page 16-17: F1M2 Pete 57?? in mangrove swamp off Sohano Island. Page 18: (Upper) Base of searchlight [no caption provided] (Lower) Japanese occupation money Page 19: Japanese armband of Sepik chief Page 20: (Upper) Pontoon wharves at Milne Bay (Lower) American wharf at Milne Bay Page 21: Japanese metal pillbox at Kangua on southern Bougainville. Page 22: Admiral Yamamoto's G4M1 Betty 2656 (upper) tail section (lower) fuselage interior with door Page 23: Admiral Yamamoto's G4M1 Betty 2656 prayer marker stick near wreckage Page 24: (Upper) U.S. Bomber at Jacquinot Bay (Lower) Japanese weapons at scrap dealer in Wewak Page 25: F4U Corsair 17804 crashed near Buin. Page 26: (Upper) PBY Catalina (Lower) Wirraway at Jackson Airport at Port Moresby Page 27: View towards Uberi on the Kokoda Trail Page 28: (Upper) Idlers Bay gun battery base (Lower) Bomana Cemetery near Port Moresby Page 29: (Upper) Kahili Airfield memorial with cross and prayer markers (Lower) Memorial Mission Hill near Wewak Page 30: (Upper) Sepik Warrent Officer First Class Yawiga at Wewak ANZAC Day (Lower) ANZAC Day Wewak Page 31: Coastwatcher memorial at Madang Page 32: The hope of the future of Papua New Guinea, a Motu girl in traditional dress Page 33: Papua New Guinea map. This book has many of the same photos that appeared in Papua New Guinea Pacific War Images originally published by Robert Brown & Assoc. during 1984. The layout and page order is different. Review by Justn Taylan Return to Book Reviews | Add a review or submit for review Last Updated |
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