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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 29, 1944
Page
4
A brief call to action on keeping equipment or items in good order to extend utility and lifespan. The text emphasizes care, prevention, and orderly maintenance practices to ensure long term usefulness.
Overseas report note states this issue includes Australian Associated Press content provided to subscribers. The item outlines distribution of foreign dispatches and confirms agency credits. No local events are described in detail.
Australian twenty five pounder artillery fought through mud to support infantry in Buna Gona and Shaggy Ridge. Sgt Carson and crew of the 2/5th Field Regiment directed accurate fire, destroying pill boxes and repelling Japanese pom pom gun crews at close range with armor piercing and delayed high explosive shells.
The passage highlights how gun layers ammunition handlers leaders and signal officers form a coordinated team within the A.LF. Infantry. It notes roles such as 2 1/Cs and QO Kip assistant and observation officers, underscoring reliance on the salt of the earth infantry.
An Anson aircraft with engine trouble safely landed on the Kellerberrin V A O C forced landing field in Western Australia. Observer Miss Nancy Dixon reported the distress circling and landing on the marked field. Pilot and seven aboard, including a RAF Squadron Leader, were unharmed and later departed after a takeoff.
wartime diary recalls Lt Col Hall selecting a captured Jap pill box for one 74 mm gun nicknamed Carson's Gun. Sgt Bing Carson and crew hauled and camouflaged it on the old strip at Giropa Point. The gun silenced a pom pom and supported New Guinea assault with high infantry bravery.
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