What is not true about ANGAU?

A. Established to lead in the war against the advancing Japanese.
B. Established to administer those parts of PNG that were not occupied by Japanese.
C. Established to recruit and conscripts Papua New Guineans as war laborers for the Allied forces.
D. Established to keep law and order in parts of PNG that were not occupied by Japanese.

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The statement that is not true about ANGAU (the Australia New Guinea Administrative Unit) is:

C. Established to recruit and conscripts Papua New Guineans as war laborers for the Allied forces.

While ANGAU did have administrative and military support roles during World War II, its primary focus was not the conscription of local labor but rather the administration and civil governance of areas in Papua New Guinea that were not directly occupied by Japanese forces.