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Thursday 13 August 2020

75th Anniversary (5: 1943)

 Day 5: 1943 - The tide of war is starting to turn, as the Japanese advance across the Pacific is countered - with ships & troops and with intelligence (ie. that led to the downing of Yamamoto's plane).

 Locally reports of soldiers - Missing, Wounded, & Killed in Action continued, including men from little hamlets like Brimpaen, Minimay and Booroopki (Booroopki residents erected a gum tree WWI Avenue of Honour & still have an Anzac Day service at the Avenue each year).

 Locally too, residents were able to view one of the midget submarines that were sunk in Sydney Harbour. The Japanese sub exhibition toured New South Wales, Victoria & South Australia. 


 

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