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Australian soldiers crossing Brown’s River on the Kokoda Trail, Papua New Guinea

A patrol of 2/25th and 2/33rd Australian Infantry Battalions crossing the Brown River by means of a bridge constructed from a fallen tree on their way forward to Menari.

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