044150
Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
- ID number
- 044150
- Object type
- Black & white
- Physical description
- Black & white
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION OF PORTABLE RECORDING EQUIPMENT USED DURING THE NEW GUINEA CAMPAIGN. THIS RECORDING GEAR WENT THROUGH THE FIRST AND SECOND LIBYAN CAMPAIGNS, AS WELL AS GREECE AND SYRIA BEFORE GOING TO NEW GUINEA. CAREFULLY MANNED BY PMG OPERATOR BILL MACFARLANE, THE GEAR HAD TRAVELLED OVER 30,000 MILES IN TWO YEARS. HERE MACFARLANE OPERATES THE RECORDER, WHILE ABC WAR CORRESPONDENT FRANK LEGG, ASSISTED BY MAREA, RECORDS HIS DESPATCH. FRANK LEGG SERVED WITH THE ARMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST BEFORE BECOMING A WAR CORRESPONDENT IN 1942, COVERING THE M.E., THEN NEW GUINEA, FINISHING IN TARAKAN IN 1946.
