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PACIFIC
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Fix this textMay 17. 1943
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Fix this textEstablished 1930
Fix this textI Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper ]
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Fix this textWHERE JAPS FAILED
Fix this textThis photograph of Wau Aerodrome, New Guinea
Fix this text(supplied by Department of Information) was taken
Fix this textduring the unsuccessful attack by the Japanese, several
Fix this textweeks ago. Wau lies among the mountains in the Bulolo Valley. Old Morobe residents will recognise
Fix this text(a) the little town, along the right-hand side of the ’drome; (b) the NGG-Koranga water-race (see on
Fix this textthe hillside in the top right-hand corner; (c) Norman Neal’s house, perched on a hilltop in the
Fix this textupper left of the picture; and (d) Wau Creek, which runs down (left of photo.) from the higher
Fix this textmountains to join the Bulolo (out of sight in the immediate foreground).
Fix this textAmerican transport planes landed Australian troops and guns on this ’drome just as the Japanese
Fix this textwere approaching it on the east and south (lower left-hand corner of photograph), to seize this posi-
Fix this texttion; and the Australians smashed the attack and drove the Japs back over the mountains with very
Fix this textheavy losses.
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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