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TAWAO, NORTH EAST BORNEO 1945-10-20. A SMALL PARTY, INCLUDING A CORPORAL FROM 23 AUSTRALIAN WAR GRAVES SERVICE UNIT, AND A SERGEANT FROM AN RAAF BOMB DISPOSAL UNIT, WENT OUT TO AN AREA WHERE AN RAAF PILOT CRASHED HIS SPITFIRE APPROXIMATELY 10 MILES FROM TAWAO. THE PLANE WAS FOUND AND THE PILOT'S BODY WAS ABOUT 10 YARDS AWAY. APPARENTLY NO ATTEMPT HAD BEEN MADE BY THE JAPANESE TO BURY HIM. (PHOTOGRAPHER SGT F. A. C. BURKE)
TAWAO, NORTH EAST BORNEO 1945-10-20. A SMALL PARTY, INCLUDING A CORPORAL FROM 23 AUSTRALIAN WAR GRAVES SERVICE UNIT, AND A SERGEANT FROM AN RAAF BOMB DISPOSAL UNIT, WENT OUT TO AN AREA WHERE AN RAAF P
LABUAN ISLAND, BORNEO. 1945-06-10. RAAF BOMB DISPOSAL CREW (RIGHT FOREGROUND) WORKING ON AN UNEXPLODED BOMB IN NORTH BORNEO, WHILE AN AIF STRETCHER-BEARER PARTY CARRIES A MAN WOUNDED IN FIGHTING ABOUT
Tawau, North Borneo. 1945-10-20. Australian soldiers examining the wreck of a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft which had crashed about ten miles from the town. As there was only one body it is assu
NOEMFOOR ISLAND, DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 1944-11-10. THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF NO. 3 BOMB DISPOSAL UNIT RAAF, 263536 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT R. TAYLOR OF TENTERFIELD, NSW, DEFUSING AN UNEXPLODED BOMB ALTHOUGH THE
An unidentified Australian Staff Sergeant (SSgt) clears sand away from a mine found washed up on a beach. Watching the proceedings are a Japanese assistant (left), and another Australian officer (rear
England. 1944-07-01. An RAAF Flying Officer G. P. Armstrong of No. 165 Squadron RAF showing damage to the tail plane of his Spitfire caused by the explosion of a flying bomb he shot down at a range of
