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"Turret of Jap Tank on the beach at Biak"

"A destroyed Jap tank on the beach area - S. Biak"

"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."