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Labuan is a small island off the coast of Sabah, Borneo. There are many WWII war memorials here as this was the place that Japan surrendered Borneo to Australian forces in 1945. Labuan is now an offshore financial centre, with lower tax rates than the rest of Malaysia to entice businesses to set up here.
The region around Phonsavan in Laos was one of the most heavily bombed during the secret war. Bomb shells and war scrap can be seen in shops and homes in Phonsavan.
Location: Melbourne – Australia
Date: 25 April 2008
April 25 in Australia and New Zealand is Anzac Day. The day commemorates Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who landed at Gallipoli in Turkey on April 25 1915 during World War I.
[Anzac Day - Melbourne]
The day is a public holiday and it has since come to represent a memorial day for all war veterans.
[Shrine of Remembrance - Anzac Day]
[City of Melbourne Liberators]
[HQ3 Aust. Div]
[RAAF Lancaster Squardrons]
[22 RSU RAAF]
[Air Command South East Asia]
[Ceylon Ex Servicemen]
[Tunnel Rats Vietnam]
[Catalina Flying Boat Units]
[The Rats of Tobruk Memorial]
I found myself at the Grote Markt (Main Square) of Mechelen on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Much of the trench war of WWI was fought in Belgium.
[Armistice Day in Mechelen - Belgium]
An anti-war message in front of a war memorial at Place Poelaert near the Palace of Justice in Brussels.
If Swedes are wondering why Belgians have singled them out it is because the installation is by Swedish artist Fia-Stina Sandlund.
[In honour of the future victims of Swedish-made weapons]
Over 60 years after the end of World War II and you can still see some buildings scarred from the battle of Berlin. When the Soviet army entered the city in late April 1945, house-to-house and hand-to-hand combat was carried out amidst the already ruined city.
[War Damaged Pillars - Berlin]
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