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AV2767 Crusader in 1945

• ...that AV2767 Crusader (pictured) was the largest ship commissioned into service with the Australian Army during World War II?
• ...that HMAS Wyatt Earp made an unsuccessful voyage to Antarctica while part of the RAN?

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• ...that Alick Bryant is believed to have been the youngest Australian soldier to serve during the First World War?
• ...that 17 Australian Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II?

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• ...that Major General John Paton commanded the rear party during the evacuation of Anzac Cove in World War I and was one of the last Australian soldiers to leave the beach?
• ...that HMAS Biloela was the first ship to be built entirely from Australian materials to an Australian design?

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• ...that No. 461 Squadron sank six German U-boats during World War II?
• ...that during World War I three members of the Australian 1st Battalion were awarded the Victoria Cross?

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• ...that the Royal Australian Air Force Maritime Section operated over 600 powered and 700 unpowered craft, including several sailing ships, at its peak strength during World War II?
• ...that the HMAS Patricia Cam was sunk by a Japanese aircraft on 22 January 1943 off the north coast of the Northern Territory?

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HMAS AE2

• ...that Len Waters was the first Australian Aboriginal military pilot?
• ...that the Royal Australian Navy Submarine Service has been established four times?

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• ...that Wing Commander Linda Corbould became the first woman to command a RAAF flying squadron on 17 November 2006?
• ...that No. 35 Squadron is the only RAAF squadron to ever be simultaneously equipped with rotary and fixed wing aircraft?

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• ...that the 2/12th Field Ambulance suffered the highest rate of casualties for a non-combatant unit in Australian history?
• ...that the Office of Australian War Graves is also responsible for the maintenance of some 20,000 graves of Commonwealth war dead in 76 war cemeteries and plots and in numerous civil cemeteries, as well as Memorials to the Missing listing over 3,000 names?

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• ...that HMAS Wagga was the last of the RAN's 56 Bathurst-class corvettes in seagoing commission?
• ...that Corporal Ernest Albert Corey is only soldier to have been awarded the Military Medal on four occasions?

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Australian Fusiliers of the 45th Battalion in Russia, 1919

• ...that Australian forces were deployed as a part of the North Russian Expeditionary Force and North Russia Relief Force during the Russian Civil War?
• ... that I Anzac Corps suffered 6,300 casualties during the Battle of Mouquet Farm in 1916 and as a result had to be withdrawn from offensive operations on the Western Front for the next two months?

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Australian troops disembarking from American Landing Ships, Tank (LST), including LST-456, at Red Beach

• ... that the first waves of the landing at Lae were carried in four destroyer transports?
• ... that Australia had its own Flying Corps during World War I?

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• ... that Tom Derrick received the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Sattelberg in November 1943?
• ... that Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign relied on aircraft and "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels"?

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Avro Ansons, having landed after collision

• ... that the 2/48th Infantry Battalion was "Australia's highest decorated unit of the Second World War"?
• ... that during the 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF, remained locked together after colliding, and then landed safely?

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Tanks from the 1st Armoured Division

• ... that Australia raised three armoured divisions during World War II – the 1st, 2nd and 3rd?
• ... that during World War II, there were four joint Australian – Netherlands East Indies flying squadrons: Nos. 18, 19, 119 and 120?

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• ... that the Australian 5th Light Horse Brigade contained a French cavalry regiment, a New Zealand machine gun squadron and a British artillery battery?
• ... that during World War II, about one fifth of the population of the Torres Strait Islands volunteered to serve in the Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion?

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