AUSTRALIAN GUNNERS IN ACTION

A Troop Command Post in the Western Desert. Gunner Simpson, of Adelaide, mans a D5 telephone, July 29th, 1942.

NEW GUINEA - Australian 25-pdrs were carried by air to Wau, while the Japs were still within close range of the airfield. The guns were assembled immediately and helped to beat off counterattacks. The subsequent fighting on precipitous wooded mountainsides much resembled the operations in the Shan States in Burma.



Australian Gunners back in the Desert again move up to the forward area with their new 'portee' equipment, July 13th, 1942.

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