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Nick Wilson

BIZARRE: Never again lessons from a new look war memorial - What They Never Told You

A range of spectacular exhibits feature as part of a $580 million Australian War Memorial upgrade. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

By the time decades-old plans to create a national memorial to veterans of World War I came to fruition, a second great war was well under way.

The Australian War Memorial was officially opened on Remembrance Day, November 11, 1941, at its current site in the heart of the nation's capital. 

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