PHOTO: Survivors from the Rakuyo Maru being pulled from their raft by seamen on the USS Sealion (image: Life Magazine archives).
A powerful story of survival and endurance with a Baradine connection is coming to light ahead of ANZAC Day, as local resident Maggie McLean reveals the World War II experience of her father Private Mick Deguara and how he survived five days at sea after his POW ship was torpedoed enroute to Japan.
Private Deguara, a member of the Australian Imperial Force’s 8th Division captured after the fall of . . .
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