US Army shelters from bombs

By Mike Reed
Updated March 19 2019 - 9:41am, first published March 18 2019 - 11:46am

The 808th Engineer Aviation Battalion was the first US Army Engineering Unit to arrive in Australia with 658 personnel leaving San Francisco in January 1942 aboard the President Coolidge arriving in Melbourne on February 1.

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