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TARAKAN ISLAND, BORNEO, 1945-05-06. GUNNER R. WHITE, 2/7 FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY, BEING EXAMINED BY REGIMENTAL AID POST MEDICAL ORDERLIES TO DETERMINE INJURIES RECEIVED WHEN DRIVING A JEEP OVER A 500 POUND AERIAL BOMB PREPARED AS A MINE BY RETREATING JAPANESE FORCES.
TARAKAN ISLAND, BORNEO, 1945-05-06. THE REMAINS OF A 2/7 FIELD REGIMENT ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY JEEP DRIVEN BY GUNNER R.L. WHITE, AFTER RUNNING OVER A 500 POUND AERIAL BOMB, USED AS A JAPANESE MINE
TARAKAN, BORNEO. 1945-05-06. A 500-POUND AERIAL BOMB WHICH HAD BEEN BURIED NOSE UP IN THE ROAD, LAYING BESIDE AN OIL TANK IN 26 INFANTRY BRIGADE AREA.
TARAKAN ISLAND, BORNEO, 1945-05-05. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL G.R. WARFE, COMMANDING OFFICER, 2/24 INFANTRY BATTALION, (1), WITH CAPTAIN G.B. TRAVIS, OFFICER COMMANDING D COMPANY, (2), EXAMINING A 500 POUND
TARAKAN ISLAND, BORNEO, 1945-05-06. LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN G.A. MARREN, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE BOMB DISPOSAL UNIT, CHECKS A SECTION OF THE AIRSTRIP WITH A MINE DETECTOR.
Tarakan Island, Borneo. 1945-05-05. One of the Japanese pillboxes on Rippon Ridge which delayed for two days the capture of the airstrip by the 2/24th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF. The pillbox w
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 11 JULY 1945. PRIVATE J KERR AND CORPORAL JONES MEMBERS OF 2/25 INFANTRY BATTALION, MOVING 500-POUND AERIAL BOMBS LEFT ON THE ROADSIDE BY THE JAPANESE. THEY ARE MOVING THEM FROM ON
