018468 Accession Number: 018468

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Borneo. May 1945. Landing ships, tank (LSTs) 584 and 585 sitting high and dry on the muddy beachhead at Tarakan waiting for the tide to float them off. These muddy beaches were a problem to engineers unloading stores.

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Accession Number
018468
Photographer
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
May 1945
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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