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US CEMETERY - PLACE UNKNOWN - Though the photograph was not captioned, my suspicion from context is that this is the US Cemetery near Oro Bay / Wewak area, where the fighting had been particularly heavy.

 Unfortunately, because of the less than ideal conditions prevailing when these photographs were first developed and printed, some of them haven't survived the years as well as others. This one is so poor, it's beyond my efforts to save it, so I didn't start on the foreground area.

As a bonus though, here's another:

 

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