Ranara! That's it. You are sure bringing back some memories with these photos, SP.
Further up the gorge (behind the camera in the first picture) is Tauta, the strip where Ray Jensch (sp?) went in. The LM bought Wren 460 VH-RAJ to replace the Dornier that crashed.
Ranara was located at the top end of the famous "Shaggy Ridge", where the Australian 7th Division fought and blocked the Japanese from moving further down into the Ramu valley. I think the sharp peak on the right above the strip was "Green Sniper's Pimple" - see the photo below, where members of "A" company, 2/9th infantry battalion are seen digging in at "Green Sniper's Pimple" after the Japanese forces had been driven back during the battle for Shaggy Ridge.
The second image (sorry, not very clear) shows the extent of the action on Shaggy Ridge. Ranara is located somewhere near the top red circle on the map.
