"Rabaul - Japanese Fortress 1942 - 1945"

Military Museum - Kokopo PNG

Photographs taken at Kokopo, near Rabaul PNG  (Sept 5, 1994)

Clockwise from AA Gun, Bomb Casing (exploded ?), Anti-Tank Gun?, Field Gun, Trolley ?

These photos were taken on a 20 minute visit to Kokopo, we drove our hire-car back to Rabaul at break-neck speed to rejoin the "Fairstar" 
(a one-day cruise stop-over).
Bomb loading cradle ?
Small locomotive (maybe for pulling barges up into the tunnels ?)
   
Military motorbikes, sidecars, generators, boxes.

The bike & sidecar on the right was previously photographed at Vunamami (1981)

The armoured vehicle in the centre is the same as the unidentified vehicle photographed in 1981 at Vunamami.

   
Torpedoes, Aero Engines (at rear) and various Ordnance.

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