NEW GUINEA. FALL OF JAPANESE HELD SATTELBERG. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS STORMED THE STEEP HEIGHTS TO ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen, Sattelberg Area
Accession Number 016247
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea1: Mubo Salamaua Area, Morobe, Sattelberg
Date made 3 December 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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NEW GUINEA. FALL OF JAPANESE HELD SATTELBERG. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS STORMED THE STEEP HEIGHTS TO WREST THE VILLAGE OF SATTELBERG FROM THE JAPANESE. SGT. T.C. DERRICK D.C.M. OF ADELAIDE, S.A., LED A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN UNIT, FIRST TO ENTER SATTELBERG. SGT. DERRICK, AFTER THE DECISION TO WITHDRAW, SECURED PERMISSION TO LAUNCH A FINAL ATTACK IN FAILING LIGHT UP A STEEP SLOPE. HIS UNIT MET TERRIFIC RESISTANCE BUT CLEANED OUT SIX JAPANESE POSITIONS. AN ARTILLERY BARRAGE COVERED THE POSITION DERRICK'S MEN HAD WON.