Australia On This Day

17 September - 1944 - Damien Parer Is Killed In Action


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On this day in 1944, Australia's most famous war cameraman — whose film Kokoda Front Line! had won us our first Oscar the previous year — was killed while filming American Marines trying to retake a tiny Pacific island held by the Japanese.

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