Dennis Burns

@DWB55

History, esp. the military history of the South West Pacific. Always learning. New Guinea born.

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Joined August 2013

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Lord Ashcroft@LordAshcroft · Feb 28

If you agree with this opinion in the ⁦@dailytelegraph⁩ I would appreciate a repost…

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Dennis Burns@DWB55 · Jul 22

July 1943 Lt H. Egan, of the Australian 2/3rd Commandos, is at left with a pipe and holding his Thompson SMG. He was killed in action a few days later on 21/7/43. They are manning a Vickers MG in a jungle gunpit on a humid hotly contested ridgetop near Salamaua, New Guinea coast.

DWB55's tweet image. July 1943
Lt H. Egan, of the Australian 2/3rd Commandos, is at left with a pipe and holding his Thompson SMG.
He was killed in action a few days later on 21/7/43.
They are manning a Vickers MG in a jungle gunpit on a humid hotly contested ridgetop near Salamaua, New Guinea coast.

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Dennis Burns@DWB55 · Jul 21

July 1943 New Guinea: New Guineans cross a vine bridge over the Francisco River enroute to front line. They carried mortar shells, stores and wounded soldiers on their shoulders over some of the toughest terrain in the world. 3 naked Australian engineers are at work in the river.

DWB55's tweet image. July 1943
New Guinea:
New Guineans cross a vine bridge over the Francisco River enroute to front line.
They carried mortar shells, stores and wounded soldiers on their shoulders over some of the toughest terrain in the world.
3 naked Australian engineers are at work in the river.

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Aus Integrity@QBCCIntegrity · Jul 13

Some think @matt_barrie is a savant, others know he’s on the pulse Know this. He is absolutely spot on when he calls out how dangerously close Australia stands at the cliff of economic collapse Without cheap energy we cannot produce. Manufacturing has been systematically killed

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Dennis Burns@DWB55 · Jul 14

July 14 1943, New Guinea: Sturdy carriers of the Mekeo people continue their work bringing key supplies forward as engineers of the 11th Australian Infantry Division use hand tools to laboriously carve a road through humid jungle from Bulldog outpost through the mountains to Wau.

DWB55's tweet image. July 14 1943, New Guinea:
Sturdy carriers of the Mekeo people continue their work bringing key supplies forward as engineers of the 11th Australian Infantry Division use hand tools to laboriously carve a road through humid jungle from Bulldog outpost through the mountains to Wau.

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Dennis Burns@DWB55 · Apr 18

Kiriwina Island Trobriand Islands Solomon Sea. Off the north coast of Papua New Guinea: On a sultry, humid tropical 1944 Easter Sunday morning, the chaplain of No 30 (Beaufighters) Squadron, Flt Lt Hardie, leads the hymn singing with his accordion. The oil drum used as an altar.

DWB55's tweet image. Kiriwina Island
Trobriand Islands
Solomon Sea.
Off the north coast of Papua New Guinea:
On a sultry, humid tropical 1944 Easter Sunday morning, the chaplain of No 30 (Beaufighters) Squadron, Flt Lt Hardie, leads the hymn singing with his accordion.
The oil drum used as an altar.

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