• Title
  [Caroline Islands - Yap Island, Palau and Truk Island]
• Creator
  Australia. Dept. of Information
  United States. Office of War Information
• Call number
  PXA 644/409-413
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1942-1944
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  74050
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 5 silver gelatin photoprints
  
• Scope and Content
  409. U.S. Forces smash Japanese bases in Western Carolines - thick smoke mushrooms skyward from Japanese positions on Yap Island pounded by American carrier-based bombers ... late in March 1944 ...
  410. U.S. planes start fires at Palau - columns of smoke spiral skyward from hits ... on Japanese base ... late in March 1944 ...
  411-413. Truk Island - First hostile plane over Truk was an R.A.A.F. Hudson which took this picture on a secret reconnaissance mission on Jan 9 1942 ...
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1045509
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on reverse
• Name
  World War (1939-1945)
  
• Topic
  aerial bombings
  aerial photographs
  islands
  wars
  
• Place
  Palau
  Truk Islands (Micronesia)
  Yap (Micronesia)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1700033

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