Pacific Wrecks Forum

Hi from Redland Bay Australia, I'm a retired civil engineer & have only recently found the time to research my fathers war records. Dad served in Borneo & New Guinea and was a member of the 1st Australian Tank Battalion which landed on Balikpapan(Borneo) with the US on 1 July 1945. Unfortunately Dad...

I 'd like to find information from veterans (or from decendants) that landed at Balikpapan on the LST 938(USS Maricopa) on 1 July 1944. I've recently been looking into my Dad's war records & obtained a copy from the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. It shows him embarking on LST 938 at Moratai on...