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"Japanese Tank - on the beach on the south side of Biak"

"British 'Long Tom' artillery piece brought to Biak by the Japanese and installed near the beach on the south coast of Biak. Originated in Singapore"

"A Japanese pill box overlooking the Mokmer Air strip on the South coast of Biak"

"A Japanese 'pill box' gun port - camoflaged with sticks. Some of these contained a 75 mm Howitzer"

"A cave entrance on Biak - wooden ammunition boxes abandoned just outside a Japanese fortification"

"Entry to cliff caves in the coral wall facing the beach at Biak. The cliff was honeycombed with caves" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Fortified Cave. Prior to Allied invasion on May 27 1944, Japanese forces constructed many defenses, such as this…

"Liberty Ships - Aircraft on Air strip perhaps Mokmer strip and Jap Fox holes in foreground - taken from up a rise in the coral wall"

"Example of the near vertical coral rock walls just inland from the beach where many Japanese had dug caves."

"The Cliff - coral - that extended for miles along the south coast of Biak in which the Japanise had many gun emplacements" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Invading Biak. On May 27-31, 1944, American forces landed on beaches between Mokmer Village and…

"The vertical Coral Cliff along the road parallel to the beach - South side of Biak"