Thanks for the support guys. I'm only going off what's written on the back of the photos. Dad was up there in WW2 and came back after he did 2 years with BCOF in Hiroshima. Most of the photos are from 1947-48. I don't think he wrote his notes on the back of the pix until the late 60's, so his recollection might not have been exactly correct. Nonetheless, they are all in New Guinea.
I hope you enjoy them.
Torres, I have others around Lae, so it's possible he got it mixed up:
"Sunken Jap ship on the end of the Lae Airstrip 1948"
Fris, dad flew as a pax often on Guinea Air Traders. That's possibly where he took the pix. Unfortunately, that"s how it was in the photo. Here's another at Lae:
"Planes on the airstrip at Lae 1948.I went in the 2nd one". Dragon Rapide, I think?
Animalclub, I've only just discovered Photobucket. Dad went up for the second time to work fro Bulolo Gold as an engineer. one of his jobs was refloating dredges that were sank a couple of years earlier
"A dredge before we fixed it Bulolo 1948"
Same dredge from a different side.
"Some New Guinea Natives"
Regards from Jarse.
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