Australian and South African troops play a game of cards in a gun pit, circa 1942.

North Africa


Men of the famed Australian 9th Infantry Division guard Italian and German POWS taken after Rommel's first unsuccessful assault on Tobruk in 1941.

Such was the fame and prowess of this Division, that three years later in Normandy, when fighting had bogged down as the Allies sought to break out, Major-General Francis de Guingaund, (Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Montgomery's Land-force Headquarters) said:

"My God, I wish we had 9th Australian Division with us this morning".

The Division saw action in North Africa and the Pacific, taking part in the battles of Tobruk; both El Alamein battles; New Guinea and Borneo...

http://www.diggerhistory.info/…/pages-2aif-cmf/9-div-aif.htm
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‎Gabi Enahoro‎ // Official World War 2 historians & buffs


 


Australian 9th Inf div

Private D. E. Hailey and T. M. Conway of the Australian 2/23 Infantry Battalion in their Bren gun pit on the forward slope of B Company position, Tarakan, Borneo, May 1945