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Courage on Distant Shores: Vintage Images of Aussie Troops (082203) _au
WWII, Pacific, New Guinea, Australian soldiers advancing through mud, Milne Bay, September 1942,
(Original Caption) 8/12/1940-Melborne, Australia: A truckload of recruits is shown arriving at a military camp outside Melborne for the final medical inspection that will pass into Australian recruits show a preference for the air. Hundreds of pilots, many of whom are fighting off the coast of England today, Were trained “Down Under”.circa 1941: Italian soldiers surrender to an Australian soldier, near the Italian Libyan seaport of Bardi. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)Royal Australian Air Force mechanics carrying ammunition belts for Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk fighters at an Australian airfield, circa 1943. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)War and Conflict, World War Two, pic: circa 1942, Pacific War, Australian troops move quickly to move oil barrels from the fire caused by Japanese bombers who had hit the oil dump (Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)Here are members of the B-24 Liberator Bomber “Miss Giving” credited with making the longest flight mission from Australia while on photographic reconnaissance over a Japanese Oil producing city last October. The Ship fought its way through intense anti-aircraft fire and was intercepted by approximately nine enemy fighters, downing four of them in battle. One engine was knocked out, but the plane returned to its base without injury to any crew members. Left to right, front: S/Sgt. Aloysius Ziober, Chicago, Ill., Gunner; Capt. Jack Banks, Portland, Ore., Pilot; 2nd Lt. John Calhoun, Wenona, Ill., co-pilot; 1st Lt. Robert MacFarland, Philadelphia, navigator; 1stLt. Clinton McMillan, Chicago, Bombardier; Back Row: T/Sgt. James Ressguard, Seattle, radio-man; Sgt. Donald J. Ford, Kansas City, gunner; Sgt. James Murphy, Elkhardt, Ind., gunner; T/Sgt. Phileman Blais,1939: Australian soldiers loading a 14-pound shell into a field tank, at an officers’ training camp in Victoria. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)General view of the production line of Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) Wirraway CA-1 training and general purpose military aircraft under construction for service with the Royal Australian Air Force circa February 1940 at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation aircraft assembly plant Fishermen’s Bend in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).9th October 1945: At the end of the war a ship arrived at San Francisco with a cargo which included 555 Australian war brides of American servicemen and some 200 of their children. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)1940: An Australian soldier leaps from a tank during training exercises in Britain. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)(Original Caption) American Soldiers Learning Aussie Game. Two Australian soldiers (on top of dugout, at left), as they teach Americans, part of United States forces in Australia, how to play “Two Up,” (Aussie version of the American game of “Flipping the Coin”.) Other US soldiers (right), are on the “alert” at 50-calibre machine gun, while still others are on watch at dugout’s mouth. 1942.25th June 1940: Australian troops enjoying a game of cricket at their training quarters at Southern Command. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)1940: Contingents of Australian and New Zealand forces arrive in Britain as part of the Allied fighting force. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Australian prime minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce (1883 – 1967) receiving a light for his cigarette at the opening of a YMCA canteen for Australian troops at the Strand Theatre, London. (Photo by Chris Ware/Getty Images)20th February 1939: Melbourne University Rifle soldiers in shirts and shorts pioneer the reform movement in militia uniform in camp at Bittern, Victoria. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)Australian servicemen taking part in a lifeboat drill on board a troopship, circa 1943. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)1940: Australian troops taking part in training exercises in Britain. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)1940: Australian troops in a camp ‘somewhere in England’. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)27th March 1942: The American Expeditionary Force, aboard one of the transport ships, off to serve in Australia. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)1940: Men of the Imperial Australian Force during intensive training, at machine gun practice. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)(Original Caption) American soldiers dig a machine gun pit “somewhere in Australia”. The gun, ready for use, is on sand bags.1940: The first contingent of the Australian Forces to arrive in the ‘mother country’, train ‘somewhere in England’. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
