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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Largest ran ship hosts marines for amphibious training | History Defined

HMAS Canberra is the Royal Australian Navy's flagship and largest warship ever built in Australia. (Lloyd Jones/AAP PHOTOS)

The decks of Australia's largest warship have echoed to the tramp of US boots, with visiting troops performing amphibious drills between Townsville and Darwin.

HMAS Canberra took aboard more than 300 marines and their equipment in Queensland's Far North and set them ashore in the Top End via landing craft.

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