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As Australian infantry advance north-west from the Labuan airstrip they shelter from Japanese sniper fire behind wrecked trucks. The soldiers are advancing (or sheltering) behind an Australian Matilda...

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Maker: Band, Jack

Labuan Island, Borneo. c. 10 June 1945. Australian engineers begin clearing the wreckage of Victoria Town. The tower in the background is the only part of the town hall still standing.

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Labuan Island, Borneo. June 1945. Indonesian women returning to the safety of their homes pass an Australian Pioneer Company of 9th Division AIF repairing the macadam road which the Japanese wrecked d...

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Labuan Island, Borneo. June 1945. Pioneers of the 9th Division AIF repairing a macadam road wrecked by retreating Japanese while natives return to the safety of their own lines.

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Labuan Island, Borneo. 10 June 1945. This tattered British Union Jack flag was raised on Flagstaff Hill in the Regency grounds by a member of the battalion fighting on the island.

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Labuan Island, Borneo. 26 June 1945. War correspondents Alan Dawes, Melbourne Herald, and Bill Smith, Department of Information, at work with typewriter and note pad after the landing.

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Weston, British North Borneo. 17 June 1945. After landing at Weston in amphibious landing vehicle tractors members of the 2/32nd Battalion, 9th Division AIF, prepare a patrol towards their objective -...

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