Gallipoli to D-Day: Aussie’s epic war story
George Dixon went ashore with the original Anzacs at Gallipoli, aged just 15 – and was shot. Three decades later he was fighting again, at history’s other most famous wartime landing.
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George Dixon went ashore with the original Anzacs at Gallipoli, aged just 15 – and was shot. Three decades later he was fighting again, at history’s other most famous wartime landing.
Australian hero Ernie Walker, who survived ‘hell on earth’ during World War II, has passed away at the incredible age of 106— the last remaining veteran of the incredible Tobruk siege in 1941.
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