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Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Lae Markham River Area, Nadzab ...

Italy. April 1944. A Vickers Wellington aircraft of an RAF squadron flies over Italy on its way to enemy targets in the Balkans. It is part of a strong formation of bombers who are on their way to ...

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Vivian Bullwinkel was one of 65 Australian nurses who boarded the Vyner Brooke in an attempt to flee the Japanese invasion of Singapore in February, 1942. Bombed by Japanese fighter planes and after ...

As dusk descended over Fire Support Base Coral on the evening of 12 May 1968, some soldiers felt uneasy. They later recalled a sense of foreboding. During the day, two Australian infantry battalions, ...

Studio portrait of 666 Quartermaster Sergeant (QMS) Thomas William Malone, 24th Battalion, of Donald, Vic. QMS Malone enlisted on 15 March 1915 and returned to Australia on 23 September 1918. Your ...

New Britain. April 1945. The New Britain Yacht Club's regatta was complete in every detail even to the bookmaker who did a roaring trade outside Hotel Jacquinot. In the foreground is a member with the ...

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The 2/43rd Australian Infantry Battalion was formed on 17 July 1940, after the start of the Second World War. It was ...