031736PD: R.A.P. - doctor giving an injection, 1940s

Summary

Photographs from No.1 PRU camps at Coomalie Airstrip, & Snake Gully, near Adelaide River, Northern Territory. 031717PD: Watering vegetable garden; 031718PD: Sharpening cross-cut saw; 031719PD: Isolated tent; 031720PD: In the back of a truck, with rifles; 031721PD: Filing a model plane made from empty bullet shells; 031722PD: DH-98 Mosquito from No.1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit which became No.87 Squadron RAAF in 1944 in flight (red opaque used to obliterate background on negative; 031723PD: Using large format camera to make composite landscape from series of photographs; 031724PD: Cooling off in the river; 031725PD: Open air showering; 031726PD: River scene; 031727PD: Derelict two-storey house; 031728PD: Airstrip sign; 031729PD: Boarding a truck; 031730PD: RAAF truck & motorcycle; 031731PD: Ant hill; 031732PD: Sapling hut; 031733PD: Film advertisement; 031734PD: 'The Pines' - We pine for home, beer, good food, ??? women and the bright lights. In short ... we wanna go home! (Holding a model of a P-38 Lightning used by No. 1 Photogaphic Reconnaisssance Unit RAAF); 031735PD: Road signs; 031736PD, 031737PD: Inside Regimental Aid Post tent, doctor gives an injection (031736PD), soldiers wait their turn (031737PD); 031738PD: Retrieving message from homing pigeon; 031739PD: Motorcycle despatch rider ploughing through thick dust; 031740PD: Dracaena marginata; 031741PD: Damaged buildings from Japanese air raid; 031742PD: Regimental Aid Post hours; 031743PD: Aeroplane (DH-98 Mosquito painted in an overall mid-tone blue colour called PRU blue for high altitude camouflage) on airstrip; 031744PD: Tent with elaborate entrance; 031745PD: Convoy of military vehicles; 031746PD: Men in the back of open trucks; 031747PD: Queueing for a meal, carrying enamel mugs and dixies; 031748PD: Manning Bofors anti-aircraft gun; 031749PD: Relaxing by the river; 031750PD: Tending camp oven; 031751PD: Thumbing a lift; 031752PD: Military police; 031753PD: Pilot standing in open cockpit of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning photographic aircraft from RAAF No.1 PRU; 031754PD: Cooling off in the river; 031755PD: Washing dishes; 031756PD: Reading a letter from home.