Private Jack Hall, a sniper in the 25th Battalion, takes aim at a Japanese sniper who was positioned in a tall tree overlooking the route of the battalion's advance in late December 1944. The enemy sniper had to be dealt with before the Australians could continue.

Members of an Army air maintenance company push supplies out of a RAAF Dakota transport aircraft to units in the forward area. Lieutenant ALS Minkie stands overseeing the drop while Privates Adam Corrie and Roy Nicholls steady the bundle at the doorway for Warrant Officer K Thorne and Private B Higgins to push out the doorway using their legs.

Sappers of the 15th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers manhandle steel horm beams during the construction of a box girder bridge in April 1945. The bridge was to enable tanks to cross a creek on the Buin Road.

A Matilda tank of the 2/4th Armoured Regiment crosses a ford over the Sindou River on the Buin Road as it moves forward to support a battalion in attacking enemy positions.

Private Les Fuller, 58th/58th Battalion, wounded by Japanese artillery south of the Hongorai River, enjoys a cuppa and chats with two friends, Corporal GT Mills and Private RA White, while waiting for evacuation to an advanced dressing station.

Members of the 7th Field Ambulance during a concert staged at Torokina for unit members and patients in April 1945. (From left) Private Robert McDermant, Sergeant SJ Savage, Private KT Boyle (dressed as 'Pistol Packin' Mamma'), Corporal Douglas Siggs (vocalist), and Privates JP Power, Alan Locke and NL Gee.

Trooper TE Yates and Lance-Corporal GW Wells, 2/8th Commando Squadron, eating fresh apples dropped to the unit by aircraft in June 1945. The men had just returned from an eight-day patrol through enemy-occupied territory.

Flight Lieutenant NC Sandford, RAAF, of the Allied Intelligence Bureau, farewells local villagers who had assisted him to rescue Javanese prisoners of war behind enemy lines in July 1945.

On the day the war ended on 15 August 1945, Corporal JH Rickards, 69 Transport Platoon, Australian Army Service Corps, and Private EM Townsend, Australian Army Medical Women's Service, serving in the 2/1st Australian General Hospital, were married in the hospital chapel at Torokina by Chaplain RH Dean.

At sea off Buin, Bougainville, sailors of the corvette HMAS Lithgow watch from the gun deck the interrogation of a Japanese envoy during negotiations for the surrender of Japanese forces on Bougainville and Buka Islands five days after the war's end.