720th
September 1943 Battalion Time Line
~~~~~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association History Project ~~~~~
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Southwest Pacific Theatre Of War ~ Australia & Papua New Guinea

4-16 September Allied forces recapture Lae-Salamaua, New Guinea.

11 September The Battalion also provided an Honor Guard and security during the visit of the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt in Townsville, Australia while she was conducting a good will tour of the South Pacific as a representative of the Red Cross.

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