Nankai Shitai

[Akira Takizawa]

New Britain

Rabaul?

Kavieng

Taki

[Brady]

New Britain

Rabaul?

Kavieng

Taki

O-SNLF troops? They apear to have their gas masks riged???

[Peter H]

PNG landing 1942

[Peter H]

Probe inland,covering fire

[Peter H]

Rascist American cartoon reproduced in Australian newspaper July 1942

[Akira Takizawa]

> O-SNLF troops?

Yes

> They apear to have their gas masks riged???

Is it strange? The Navy also used gas mask.

Taki

[Brady]

> O-SNLF troops?

Yes

> They apear to have their gas masks riged???

Is it strange? The Navy also used gas mask.

Taki

Only in the since that they apear to be so readly to hand.

[hisashi]

It seems common that SNLF personnel received a gas mask. Originally IJN prepared gas masks against (potential) poison gas warfare at sea, but they also thought of harmful gas during combat, especially CO.

[Peter H]

Has anyone got a larger version of this painting?

Fujita's Desperate Struggle of an Unit in New Guinea.

○○部隊の死闘−ニューギニア戦線 1943

From: http://search.artmuseums.go.jp/

[Peter H]

A new book on the Japanese experience at Kokoda:

The Path of Infinite Sorrow:The Japanese on the Kokoda Track by Craig Collie and Hajime Marutani.Veteran accounts intermingled with diaries picked up from the Japanese dead in the campaign.

[Peter H]

Photos from The Path of Infinite Sorrow

Colonel Kusunose Masao & Colonel Yamamoto Shigemi

[Peter H]

Colonel Kusunose,Major-General Horii and Lt Colonel Tanaka at Katsuharahama Beach,Kochi,before leaving for the Bonin Islands,September 1941

[Peter H]

...on board a landing barge heading for the Papuan shore..

[Peter H]

..setting out along the Kokoda Track..

[Peter H]

Kokoda advance