Together with war correspondent Osmar White, he undertook an arduous journey by schooner, launch and then on foot from Port Moresby to Wau via Yule Island, Terapo and Kudjiru, in order to document the efforts of the meager forces then fighting on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea.
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During this phase of the war, he filmed some of his most famous sequences, some at Salamaua and, most notably, those used in Kokoda Front Line!.
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His first experience at close quarters was during a troop advance at Derna.
The crew included future war photographer Damien Parer and among the cast were Phil Smith, father of actor Mona Barrie, and a number of children who were students at an acting school run by director Claude Flemming with Frank Harvey.
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Was nominated again for his portrayal of World War II Academy Award-winning cameraman Damien Parer in John Duigan's Fragments of War, and in 2002 for Halifax f.p..