Indigenous islanders help load crates into the back of a CCKW 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. Indigenous islanders help load crates into the back of a CCKW. "Natives are hired to help load supplies on truck." [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
Vehicles, military--American--New Britain