G'day Bill, I can accuratley place the second picture, with a vehicle coming off a landing craft etc, that particular location where they are actually landing is Shoal Bay (aka Port Stephens) New South Wales, Australia. in the background to the left is Jimmy's beach following around to the Right of frame is the headland known as Yaccaba, and to the extreme Right is Tomaree. On Tomaree headland there was a radar installation and below in the pic you can see buildings some of which are still there today. I note that the top of Tomaree is not shown possibly to hide the radar installation. I have very fond memories of climbing up to the radar tower when I was young, and going down onto Shoal Bay beach at low tide and pulling out rusty barbed wire, and also going over to Zenith beach (behind Tomaree headland) and digging in the dunes and finding hundreds of spent .303 cartridge cases and very rusty stripper clips. Quite a few of the older structures that housed very large coastal type defence guns are still standing, and the concrete base for the torpedoe tubes that gaurded the harbour entrance are still in place, I could waffle on here for some time re this fascinating place which is about 55 miles from my home, and the things that I can remember from my childhood days spent there in the latter part 1950's. The radr inst was also used to triangulate radio sig's with another tower that was located along Stockton beach(called Ypres) and another further south down near Catherine Hill bay, anyway enough from me i don't think I have any particular pix of that area of the beach but I will endevour to get a shot from roughly the same location, but someone will have to post it I'm a dummy cheers Dennis
PS somewher I have some pix of troops on Tomaree!!