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Article: Fed: Sevice remembers deadly WW2 training accident

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May 21, 2008
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AAP General News (Australia)
05-21-2008
Fed: Sevice remembers deadly WW2 training accident

CANBERRA, May 21 AAP - Sixty-three years ago today a devastating explosion wrecked
a bunker and killed 26 soldiers in what remains Australia's worst single army training
mishap.

Just what happened at the Kapooka army training camp remains unclear, but the tragedy
is being remembered today with a commemorative service at the Kapooka base, outside Wagga
Wagga in southern NSW.

Colonel Bill Hanlon, commandant of the army recruit training centre, said the young
soldiers who died on May 21, 1945 were preparing to go to war and it was appropriate that
they be remembered.

At that time Kapooka was an ...

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