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05-26-2006, 12:38 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Queensland
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| Wildcat's WWII pics. From an Aussie perspective of WWII. The following pics are of the 7th Australian Division's landing at Balikpapan in Borneo in July 1945.
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05-26-2006, 01:05 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cracow
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| Good pics but terrible times....
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05-26-2006, 02:01 AM
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05-26-2006, 10:05 AM
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| More pics from Borneo Operations.
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05-26-2006, 10:42 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
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05-26-2006, 11:07 AM
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Temps over 100F with near 100% humidity. Rain can either be a short sprinkle or come down in a deluge thats like taking a shower. The threat of receiving a lethal bite from a snake is always a threat, and it happened with alarming frequency. And the insects and bugs are numerous, carry diseases (some lethal) and can and will find you. Even if they dont bite you, they will annoy you and drive you mad. The weather and enviornment of SE Asia was severe and unforgiving on men and eqmt alike.
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05-26-2006, 11:11 AM
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| Wildcat, great pics. I've never been able to figure out why in the world MacArthur planned this operation. None of the oil from Balikpapin, Tarakan and Samarinda was going anywhere, with the allied naval and air blockade 100% tight. Perhaps he wanted the oil fields to start producing and reduce the logistics burden? Maybe politics were at work and he wanted to quash any nationalist sentiment and make sure the Dutch were coming back "under force"? That pix of the ladies next to the C47......... do you call them "bush babes"? hehehehehhehe
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05-26-2006, 03:27 PM
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| "World Traveller"  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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05-27-2006, 05:34 AM
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| Minister of Whoopass  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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|  I remember once or twice looking about as good as these guys lol... Excellent shots Wildcat.... Where's u dig those up from???
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05-27-2006, 06:20 AM
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BTW bush babes or shielas same thing!!
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05-27-2006, 06:37 AM
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05-27-2006, 10:02 AM
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| More pictures from the Borneo Campaign.
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05-27-2006, 10:14 AM
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06-03-2006, 06:56 PM
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 | Anyone who could actually fight in the jungle was one tough cookie - It must have been enough of a nightmare just moving around... 
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06-03-2006, 07:27 PM
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| yeah must have been intense ...heat , humidty the natural predators let alone moving any or all equipment with no roads and supplying the men and equipment and there doesn't appear to be much level terrain ...and no helicopters |
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