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Mersa Matruh
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Mersa Matruh is an ancient town on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, 290 kilometres west of Alexandria. In 1941 Matruh was the terminus of the railway Cairo and also a small port. Thus, when the Axis ...PL1349
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Ioribaiwa
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Ioribaiwa was a small village, atop a ridge, on the Kokoda Trail, approximately 50 kilometres north-east of Port Moresby. It was the site of one of the many delaying actions fought by Australian troop...PL422
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Balikpapan
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A port in on the southern coast of Dutch Borneo, Balikpapan was the site of the last major Australian ground operation of the Second World War. The landing at Balikpapan was codenamed Oboe Two, and wa...PL1913
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Khirbe
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Khirbe, a small town in south-eastern Lebanon, was the site of the 2/31st Battalion's first major engagement of the campaign in Syria and Lebanon, and the Second World War. Advancing from the Palestin...PL504050