AWIART-04 - Continental Artillery Papau New Guinea helping bring a Pacific War

helping bring a Pacific War display to life

the figure provides the essential human element that transforms a vehicle display into a historical scene

ordinary life continued wherever circumstances allowed

particularly during conflicts across the Asia-Pacific region

AWIART-04 - Continental Artillery Papau New Guinea helping bring a Pacific WarA company was authorized by the New York Provincial Congress, to be raised in July, 1775, by Captain John Lamb, for Continental service. It was ordered to the Northern Army, and served under General Montgomery before Quebec, where they did excellent service and suffered severely. Their uniform for dress, when first organized, was a blue coat faced with buff, which was very unusual. Most of the artillery companies raised during the war wore blue faced