720th
February 1943 Battalion Time Line
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Southwest Pacific Theatre Of War ~ Australia & Papua, New Guinea
Australian Duty Stations
Paupa Campaign

3 February T5 (SGT) Stanley V, "Dyke" Knoll, D Company, was diagnosed with Dengue Fever and was sent to 17th Station Hospital, Charters Towers, Australia.

     The B Company platoon assigned to Portland Roads, Australia to guard the logistics base on 11 November 1942, returned to Townsville.