Papuan Infantry Battalion
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The Papuan Infantry Battalion was a unit of the Australian Army raised in the Territory of Papua for service during the Second World War. Formed in early 1940 in Port Moresby to help defend the territ
Sergeant Bengari of A Company, PIB on 5 August 1944
Members of the Papuan Infantry Battalion at Port Moresby, January 1941
Members of the PIB and Royal Papuan Constabulary being briefed before a patrol around Waiwai, south of Buna, in October 1942
PIB soldiers around Bisiatabu, July 1943
Landing at Nadzab
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The Landing at Nadzab was an airborne landing on 5 September 1943 during the New Guinea campaign of World War II in conjunction with the landing at Lae. The Nadzab action began with a parachute drop a
5 September 1943. Dwarfed by and silhouetted against clouds of smoke generated to provide concealment, C-47s from the US Army Air Forces drop a battalion of the 503rd Parachute Regiment at Nadzab, New Guinea. A battalion dropped minutes earlier is landing in the foreground.
Elkton III Plan, March 1943
Lae-Nadzab operations
Crew of a short 25-pounder in the Markham Valley