USMC HMMWV Shipment Arrives in Australia April 2001

This dramatic color photo is dated 30 April 2001 and shows Marines preparing to off-load a shipment of 48 HMMWVs (High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicles) at an Australian military base in Rockhampton, Queensland.

The Marines, the HMMWVs, and other equipment were in Australia for Operation Tandem Thrust, a combined U.S., Canadian, and Australian exercise involving more than 18,000 troops.

Today in WW II: 8 Feb 1940 Germans establish the first large Jewish ghetto in Poland in the city of Lodz. More ↓

8 Feb 1941 US House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Act [265 to 165].
8 Feb 1942 Battle of Sarimbun Beach begins, the first stage of the Japanese assault on Singapore.
8 Feb 1942 Japanese Offensive in Burma begins [8 Feb-2 May].
8 Feb 1945 Battle of the Reichswald: British and Canadian forces under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery begin Operation Veritable [8 Feb-11 Mar].
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