A Japanese casuality in the capture of Buna. On the beach at Buna Mission, last point of Japanese resistance in the Papuan section of New Guinea, the body of a slain Japanese soldiers gives mute evidence of the defeat of the enemy. The Japanese suffered heavy losses in this engagement and eventually were completely routed by American and Australian forces

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A Japanese casuality in the capture of Buna. On the beach at Buna Mission, last point of Japanese resistance in the Papuan section of New Guinea, the body of a slain Japanese soldiers gives mute evidence of the defeat of the enemy. The Japanese suffered heavy losses in this engagement and eventually were completely routed by American and Australian forces

A Japanese casuality in the capture of Buna. On the beach at Buna Mission, last point of Japanese resistance in the Papuan section of New Guinea, the body of a slain Japanese soldiers gives mute evidence of the defeat of the enemy. The Japanese suffered heavy losses in this engagement and eventually were completely routed by American and Australian forces

Wasted in the hasty, slovenly black marketer's makeshift abattoir are parts that might make valuable surgical and medicinal supplies for U.S. soldiers: sutures for sewing up incisions, adrenalin and insulin, as well as gelatin for military photographic film

Wasted in the hasty, slovenly black marketer's makeshift abattoir are parts that might make valuable surgical and medicinal supplies for U.S. soldiers: sutures for sewing up incisions, adrenalin and insulin, as well as gelatin for military photographic film

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Hi-Line town greetings; Eddie Gerspocher, retired sheepherder

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A Japanese casuality in the capture of Buna. On the beach at Buna Mission, last point of Japanese resistance in the Papuan section of New Guinea, the body of a slain Japanese soldiers gives mute evidence of the defeat of the enemy. The Japanese suffered heavy losses in this engagement and eventually were completely routed by American and Australian forces

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Image source: U.S. Army.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 1000.

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01/01/1943
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