Today marks the 84th anniversary of the Bangka Strait Massacre (1942), in which 21 unarmed Australian nurses were killed by Japanese forces, with the wounded Vivian Bullwinkel the sole survivor.
Lest We Forget.
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Bangka Island massacre
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Today's #ausarmy #orbat for the #orbatboys, the Aust. Army's 1st Division in 1999. 1DIV aimed to move away from the Defence of Australia doctrine and become flexible, deployable, and scalable.
It would face its first test during INTERFET.
The struggle of capturing the action while your friend fails to dismount the Ferret across the field and you're getting a fit of giggles. This is not how to do a combat roll.
No reenactors were (badly) harmed in the making of this show.
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