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Lingkas area, Tarakan, Netherlands East Indies, 1945-05-01. On the first day of Operation Oboe One, the attack and landing on Tarakan Island by troops of the 9th Australian Division, soldiers probably of 2/7th Field Regiment load a shell into a 25-pounder field gun set up on a rise overlooking a tropical beach. In the background, other Australian soldiers unload supplies from Landing Ship, Tank (LST) no. 151 of the US Navy's Amphibious Group Six which supported the landing. The LST has a Bofors anti-aircraft gun mounted on its deck. (Donor Dr Wootten)
Lingkas beach, Tarakan, Netherlands East Indies, 1945-05-01. An anti-tank ditch about 25 feet wide and studded with posts driven into the ground constitutes part of the Japanese defences on Tarakan Is
Lingkas beach area, Tarakan, Netherlands East Indies, 1945-05-01. The twin barrels of an anti-aircraft gun point upwards from a Japanese gun emplacement or pillbox whose protective walls are solidly c
Lingkas area, Tarakan, Netherlands East Indies, 1945-05-01. Thick cement walls and a cement slab roof fortify the entrance to a Japanese bunker which is now partially destroyed. On one side of the ent
LINGKAS, TARAKAN ISLAND, BORNEO. 1945-05. INDONESIAN, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES AND AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS WITH ALLIED EQUIPMENT ON THE LANDING BEACH. THE US NAVY LANDING SHIP, TANK (LST) 530 IS DISCHARGIN
Australian soldiers are ferrying a short 25 pounder gun ashore on an amphibious load carrier (named after the US Army's serial numbers DUKW).
MOROTAI. 21 JUNE 1945. VARIOUS UNITS OF 7 DIVISION ASSEMBLED AT EMBARKATION AREA FOR LOADING ON SHIPS FORMING THE CONVOY FOR THE OBOE 2 OPERATION. SHOWN, AN AMPHIBIOUS DUKW. LOADED WITH A 25-POUNDER G
