A group of Australan soldiers of 2/28th (Infantry) Battalion unearth and deactivate a Japanese bomb in New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean; 1944-45.

Neutralizing a bomb

Soldiers of the 6th Division of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on board a train, before being sent to the front; 1941. 


On to fight Germans

Corporal Leslie Allen (November 1916-May 1982) - nicknamed "Bull" Allen - of the 17th Infantry Brigade, Australian Army, during a battle carries an American soldier wounded by a splinter of a Japanese mine on the slope of Mount Tambu, New Guinea on July 30, 1943, during the Allied attacks on the Japanese positions. He also carried out twelve other seriously wounded American soldiers under fire to the rear. For his action he was awarded the Silver Star (U.S. decoration).