Liberated indian troops aid allied on New Guinea. Sikhs, indian troops freed from the Japanese by U.S.

Liberated indian troops aid allied on New Guinea. Sikhs, indian troops freed from the Japanese by U.S. forces which landed on the northern coast of New Guinea, join other Allied soldiers in battling treacherous mud on a road leading inland from the town of Hollandia. U.S. amphibious forces wich pushed ashore on April 22, 1944, near Hollandia and at Aitape, rescued from the japanese, 707 Allied prisoners of which 462 were Sikhs.