Battle of Sio
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The Battle of Sio, fought between December 1943 and March 1944, was the break-out and pursuit phase of General Douglas MacArthur's Huon Peninsula campaign, part of the New Guinea campaign of World War
Australian troops of B Company, 30th Infantry Battalion crossing a shallow creek between Weber Point and Malalamai. They have been advancing from Roinji over muddy swamps, Kunai grass and innumerable rivers to link up with American troops at Yagomai.
The Envelopment of the Huon Peninsula 1943–44
A PT boat patrols off New Guinea, 1943
A Matilda tank of A Squadron, 1st Tank Battalion, fires at a Japanese foxhole.
20th Brigade (Australia)
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The 20th Brigade was a brigade-sized infantry unit of the Australian Army. First raised in 1912 as a Militia formation to provide training under the compulsory training scheme, the brigade was later r
A patrol from the 20th Brigade around Tobruk
Signallers from the 2/15th Battalion prior to embarkation on the Queen Mary in Sydney, December 1940.
Australian soldiers and U.S. Army landing craft at Scarlet Beach on 22 September 1943.
Troops from the 20th Brigade landing on Labuan in November 1945 after being withdrawn from Seria