One soldier inside a large crater created by a Japanese bomb, supposedly laying mines as another soldier looks on Talesea, at New Britain in 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
Description:
One soldier inside a large crater created by a Japanese bomb, supposedly laying mines as another soldier looks on. "Crater from Jap bomb used by enemy to mine the airport area, Talesea, New Britain." Talesea, New Britain. [1944]
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1944
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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.
Geography:
Talasea
Latitude:
-5.333
Longitude:
150.017
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--New Britain
War damage--New Britain
Mines (Weapons)--New Britain