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"Native homes, on stilts over the water"

"Native homes on stilts over the bay waters"

"Native homes - on stilts over the water"

"Local native man poses with fishing bow and arrow aboard large outrigger boat. Biak - New Guinea" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Fishing Arrow. Standing on his canoe, a Biak fisherman demonstrates how he draws his bow and sights his fishing arrow."…

"Some Sqdn's Camp area right at sea side - Good example of a camp. A row of native dug-out canoes up the beach"

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

"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…

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

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

"Example of coral cliffs facing the beach. Japanese had dug caves and tunnels there in for defense installations"