Cmdr. Joseph C. Clifton passes out cigars on board the aircraft carrier Saratoga (CV-3), in celebration of a successful air attack on Rabaul, 5 November 1943. (National Archives) With a face weathered ...
I was well acquainted with Rabaul long before I went there. As a space shuttle astronaut in the 1990s, I had looked down from Earth orbit on the active volcanoes at this Papua New Guinea site on the ...
While Kokoda continues to loom large in the minds of Australians, Rabaul hardly resonates. But relatives of the nearly 2,000 Australian soldiers and civilians who were left behind when Japan invaded ...
On a plain of barren pumice overlooked by an active volcano, Albert Koni points to the site of his childhood home. It's right here where he's standing, but 7 metres down. "Everything is under the ...
In the bitterest days on Guadalcanal a year ago, Marines used to refer to the frequent runs of Jap destroyers carrying men and supplies down the Solomons as the “Bougainville Express.” Last week the ...
THESE remarkable pictures show the extraordinary daily routine of people living beneath three active volcanoes in a Papua New Guinea town covered in ash. Rabaul in Papua New Guinea was destroyed ...
On January 14, 1944, the United States Marine Corps Aviation's Fighting Squadron 215, known as the Fighting Corsairs, was in the heat of a critical mission covering a flight of bombers targeting enemy ...
In September 1994, Rabaul volcano on the Papua New Guinean island of New Britain erupted. "The death toll could have been many thousands, because about 75 percent of the houses collapsed," said Dr.
On Christmas, only ten days after the landing at Arawe (TIME, Dec. 27), General Douglas MacArthur sent forth his second invasion fleet to New Britain, Jap rampart island in the Southwest Pacific.
It’s an exciting time for volcano-watchers — and an unnerving time for anyone who lives near a rumbling volcano. On Thursday, two large volcanoes began erupting Over the past day, two large volcanoes ...
Air Niugini successfully operated its first Airbus A220-300 commercial service into Tokua airport, Rabaul, last Friday on 19 ...
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