An Australian Matilda II tank of the 4th Armored Brigade, lands on Toko Beach, south of Empress Augusta Bay on the west coast of Bougainville and west of Puriata River. This was part of a general Australian advance south towards the Japanese base at Buin. 


Matilda tank comes ashore

Australian troops advancing through the jungle toward the town of Lae on the island of Papua New Guinea against Japanese resistance. The town was taken on 16 September, 1943.

New Guinea campaign

Australian troops advance from the village of Gona toward the village of Buna, on Papua Territory, in New Guinea; 1943.
Papua New Guinea is the eastern half of the island of New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, north of Australia.
 