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Images of the Bougainville
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| Lance Sergeant Norman Button, 2 Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, fits a pressure gauge measuring the tooting pressure of the buffer recuperator system to a field
10 December 1944. (AWM-083972) |
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| The first contingent of 'Five Year Release Personnel' to leave Bougainville for return to Australia wait at Torokina on 26
July 1945. (AWM 094340) |
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| Lieutenant Jack Deacon of the 9th Battalion has his jaw wound dressed by Private Clifford Manley at the regimental aid post at Little George Hill on 29 November 1944. In the background are Private Frederick Palmer and Chaplain Donald Ganly, also of the 9th Battalion.
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| Australian coastwatchers are presented with awards by an American officer: Lieutenant Paul Mason of the RANVR, centre, receives the US Distinguished Service Cross and Lieutenant
Commander Hugh Mackenzie of the RAN, right, the US Legion of Merit. (AWM304767) |
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| Private Robert
Allder of HO Company, 15th Battalion, receives a light from Private LS Russell, 182nd US Infantry Regiment, as Australian forces take over from the Americans in the Jaba river area, Q December 1Q44.
(AWM 084170) |
