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Raid on Mubo (1942)

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The Raid on Mubo was a raid by Australian commandos on the Japanese base at Mubo in New Guinea in World War II conducted on 1 October 1942. A party of 60 soldiers from the 2/5th Commando Squadron (Australia) under Norman Winning attacked the Japanese base. It was estimated up to 50 Japanese were killed.[1]

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  1. ^ "Commando tales are still untold". The Canberra Times. 14 June 1969. p. 11. Retrieved 22 September 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

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