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Photograph 018636 Second World War, 1939-1945Labuan Island, Borneo. 10 June 1945. Lance Corporal Laurie Dawson of Glen Innes, NSW of 2/43rd Battalion, in position on the edge of bomber dispersal bay at Labuan airstrip.

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Labuan Island, Borneo. 10 June 1945. Lance Corporal Laurie Dawson of Glen Innes, NSW of 2/43rd Battalion, in position on the edge of bomber dispersal bay at Labuan airstrip.
Labuan Island, Borneo. 10 June 1945. Lance Corporal Laurie Dawson of Glen Innes, NSW of 2/43rd Battalion, in position on the edge of bomber dispersal bay at Labuan airstrip.

Labuan Island, Borneo. 1945-06-10. Lance Corporal L. Dawson of Glen Innes, NSW and Private J. Edwards of St Peters, SA of 2/43rd Battalion move forward in the bomber dispersal bay on Labuan airfield.

Labuan Island, Borneo. 10 June 1945. Members of the 2/43rd Battalion that captured the airstrip clamber over a wrecked Japanese bomber aircraft on the edge of the strip.

Labuan Island, Borneo. 10 June 1945. Australian personnel inspecting a Japanese bomber aircraft. The airstrip was captured by the Australians of 2/43rd Battalion on the day of the landing.

LABUAN ISLAND. 10 JUNE 1945. MEMBERS OF A PATROL FROM D COMPANY, 2/43 INFANTRY BATTALION, MOVING ROUND THE LIP OF A LARGE BOMB CRATER ON THE AIRSTRIP AT THE SOUTH END OF THE AIRCRAFT DISPERSAL BAYS.

Labuan Island, Borneo. 1945-06. Members of the Australian battalion that captured the airstrip, clamber over a wrecked Japanese bomber on the edge of the strip.
