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Photo by Gerald C. Anker.

Australian troops storm ashore in the first assault wave to hit Balikpapan on the southeast coast of oil-rich Borneo.  Coast Guard Combat Photographer James L. Lonergan stands in the landing craft.  (July 1945).

Photograph by Gerald C. Anker

Photo courtesy of the U.S. National Archives, Still Picture Records LICON.

 

 

 


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Coast Guard Combat Photographer James Lonergan with Australian troops in Borneo, photograph by Gerald C. Anker; courtesy of the National Archives, Still Picture Records LICON.  NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-26-G-4718.  Production date, July 1945.   Creator: Department of Transportation. U.S. Coast Guard. Office of Public and International Affairs.

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