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Gull Force 70th anniversary marked in NT

GULL Force soldiers have been remembered on the 70th anniversary of their liberation, and the event has brought back memories for a former prisoner of war.

THREE days after 19-year-old Max Gilbert enlisted in the army in June 1940, he met three other men who would become his best friends in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Indonesia.

BUT only Max would survive.

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