Indigenous islanders help unload ammunition at 40th Infantry Division Base Camp at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in August 1944

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Several indigenous islanders help unload ammunition at 40th Infantry Division base camp at Cape Gloucester. "Natives are hired to store ammunitions supplies." [Cape Gloucester, New Britain. August 1944]

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1944-08-
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
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Gloucester, Cape
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Indigenous peoples--New Britain
Military camps--American--New Britain