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Units
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No. 25 Squadron
Unit
25 Squadron was first formed as 23 Squadron at Laverton in Victoria on 3 May 1937. It moved to Pearce in Western Australia on 1 January 1939 and was subsequently renamed. The outbreak of the Second Wo...U59388
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No. 79 Squadron
Unit
79 Squadron was formed at Laverton, Victoria, on 26 April 1943. The squadron received its first Spitfire VC aircraft a month later, when it was ordered to deploy to Goodenough Island, off New Guinea's...U59417
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No. 22 Squadron
Unit
22 Squadron's first assignments of the Second World War were as a training unit covering army support and towing targets for anti-aircraft practice. In 1941 the unit was equipped with Anson and Wirraw...U59385
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No. 14 Squadron
Unit
14 Squadron was formed at Pearce in Western Australia on 6 February 1939, as a General Reconnaissance-Bomber Squadron. It was equipped with Anson and, later, Hudson aircraft. Early in the Second Wo...U59379
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2/15th Australian Infantry Battalion
Unit
The 2/15th Infantry Battalion was raised at Redbank army camp in Brisbane on 1 May 1940, as part of the 20th Brigade. The battalion did its basic training at Redbank and went to Darwin to undertake th...U56058
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2/9th Australian Infantry Battalion
Unit
The 2/9th, the first Queensland battalion of the Second AIF, assembled for the first time at Redbank Camp in Brisbane on 13 November 1939. It became part of the 18th Brigade of the 6th Australian Divi...U56052
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No. 9 Squadron
Unit
During the Second World War 9 (Fleet Cooperation) Squadron flew Supermarine Seagull V and British serial Walrus aircraft from land bases and ships at sea. No. 9 Squadron had aircraft serve with HMAS A...U59374
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2/6 Armoured Regiment
Unit
In November 1940 the Australian War Cabinet aproved the formation of an armoured division and the 1st Armoured Division was raised in July 1941. The 2/6th Australian Armoured Regiment was formed at Gr...U54342
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2/8 Armoured Regiment
Unit
In November 1940 the Australian War Cabinet aproved the formation of an armoured division and the 1st Armoured Division was raised in July 1941. The 2/8th Australain Armoured Regiment was raised in Vi...U54344
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No. 8 Squadron
Unit
8 Squadron reformed in Canberra at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and began conducting patrols and searches, and providing transportation services from January 1940. Once re-equipped wit...U59373
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No. 30 Squadron
Unit
30 Squadron was formed at Richmond in New South Wales on 9 March 1942, where it conducted training flights and sea reconnaissance. In August the unit moved to Townsville and then to Port Moresby and b...U59393
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No. 13 Squadron
Unit
Two months after being formed at Darwin on 1 June 1940, 13 Squadron commenced day-night training, shipping security patrols, and weekly patrols of Australia's northern coastline. These activities cont...U59378
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28th Australian Infantry Battalion
Unit
After the First World War the defence of the Australian mainland lay with the part time soldiers of the Citizens Military Force, otherwise known as the Militia. The Militia was organized to maintain t...U56109
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No. 5 Squadron
Unit
5 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps was reformed at Laverton in Victoria on 9 January 1941, with a single flight of Wirraway aircraft. Serving primarily as a training unit in Rockhampton, Toogoolawah,...U59370
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1 Armoured Regiment
Unit
Serving in New Guinea as the 1st Tank Battalion (Australian Imperial Force) (AIF) in 1943 and 1944, and in Balikpapan in 1945 as the 1st Armoured Regiment (AIF), this regiment arguably saw more action...U54347
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26th Australian Infantry Battalion
Unit
After the First World War the defence of the Australian mainland lay with the part-time soldiers of the Citizens Military Force (CMF), also known as the Militia. The Militia was organized to maintain ...U56107
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No. 78 Squadron
Unit
78 Squadron was formed at Camden on 20 July 1943, equipped with Kittyhawks, and came under the command of Squadron Leader G.F. Walker on 14 August 1943. In October the advanced echelon travelled, via ...U59416
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1st Independent Company
Unit
The 1st Independent Company was formed in June 1941 and the following month, with the threat of war with Japan looming, it was sent to Kavieng, New Ireland. The company was based here at Kavieng, wher...U56146
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No. 6 Squadron
Unit
On 1 January 1939 4 Squadron (General Reconnaissance) was renumbered 6 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Early in the war the unit commenced reconnaissance and bombing exercises with the navy and fle...U59371