2 The course and consequences of World War II
... landed on the other side of the island and most of our troops were sent around to engage them . . . Our first engagement was with Japanese paratroops who had landed on the outskirts of a village called Babaoe . . . We got on the last truck pulling out of the village just as the Japanese paratroops c ...
... landed on the other side of the island and most of our troops were sent around to engage them . . . Our first engagement was with Japanese paratroops who had landed on the outskirts of a village called Babaoe . . . We got on the last truck pulling out of the village just as the Japanese paratroops c ...
Defence force journal 113 1995 Jul_Aug
... Allen. For the local diplomatic and ex-pat communiAlthough the Japanese completed their occupation ty, the service was more significant as the Australian of Burma by 20 May 1942, the advance into India and New Zealand Defence Forces were being reprewas halted by the onslaught of the wet season. This ...
... Allen. For the local diplomatic and ex-pat communiAlthough the Japanese completed their occupation ty, the service was more significant as the Australian of Burma by 20 May 1942, the advance into India and New Zealand Defence Forces were being reprewas halted by the onslaught of the wet season. This ...
Victoria Remembers Calendar 2016
... Australia's first overseas deployment, the 1st Australian Commonwealth Horse, begins to depart Australia for service in the Boer War, 1902. ...
... Australia's first overseas deployment, the 1st Australian Commonwealth Horse, begins to depart Australia for service in the Boer War, 1902. ...
American Jews Serve in World War II
... It was on the first day of the war that Sergeant Meyer Levin and his teammate, Captain Colin Kelly, gave America something to cheer about. They were flying off the coast of the Philippines when they spotted the Japanese battleship HARUNA. Captain Kelly flew his bomber over the HARUNA. At that moment ...
... It was on the first day of the war that Sergeant Meyer Levin and his teammate, Captain Colin Kelly, gave America something to cheer about. They were flying off the coast of the Philippines when they spotted the Japanese battleship HARUNA. Captain Kelly flew his bomber over the HARUNA. At that moment ...
9Hist 2a Readings 2016 - Northlakes High School
... massive artillery bombardments intended to cut barbed wire and destroy enemy defences. after these bombardments, waves of attacking infantry emerged from the trenches into no man’s land and advanced towards the enemy’s positions. the surviving germans, protected by deep and heavily reinforced bunker ...
... massive artillery bombardments intended to cut barbed wire and destroy enemy defences. after these bombardments, waves of attacking infantry emerged from the trenches into no man’s land and advanced towards the enemy’s positions. the surviving germans, protected by deep and heavily reinforced bunker ...
Australians on the overseas battle fronts 172 to 177
... Japanese planes could easily bomb Townsville and other Australian cities and Japanese troops could easily invade northern Australia. On 4 May 1942, the battle began when an Allied naval force, led by HMAS Australia and including the two United States aircraft carriers USS Lexington and USS Yorktown, ...
... Japanese planes could easily bomb Townsville and other Australian cities and Japanese troops could easily invade northern Australia. On 4 May 1942, the battle began when an Allied naval force, led by HMAS Australia and including the two United States aircraft carriers USS Lexington and USS Yorktown, ...
Australia and World War 2
... Pacific - but the Japanese missed their most vital target in the Pearl Harbour attack, the American aircraft carriers. • The Japanese soon fought their way down the Malayan Peninsula to Singapore, the supposedly mighty British fortress which would stop them. Singapore fell in February 1942 and thous ...
... Pacific - but the Japanese missed their most vital target in the Pearl Harbour attack, the American aircraft carriers. • The Japanese soon fought their way down the Malayan Peninsula to Singapore, the supposedly mighty British fortress which would stop them. Singapore fell in February 1942 and thous ...
The war hits home - NSW Department of Education
... 19 February 1942 was the day war first came to Australian shores. Darwin was thought to have been under threat from the time the Japanese first attacked Malaya so it was decided to evacuate civilians from the city. Women, children, sick and disabled people were moved south during December 1941 and J ...
... 19 February 1942 was the day war first came to Australian shores. Darwin was thought to have been under threat from the time the Japanese first attacked Malaya so it was decided to evacuate civilians from the city. Women, children, sick and disabled people were moved south during December 1941 and J ...
Pacific theater guided notes
... One mobilized high school girl, Yukiko Kasai, found herself issued an awl and told, "Even killing one American soldier will do. … You must aim for the abdomen." Operation Downfall Nearly _______________________________Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the casualties resulting ...
... One mobilized high school girl, Yukiko Kasai, found herself issued an awl and told, "Even killing one American soldier will do. … You must aim for the abdomen." Operation Downfall Nearly _______________________________Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the casualties resulting ...
Battle of Muar
The Battle of Muar was the last major battle of the Malayan campaign. It took place from 14–22 January 1942 around Gemensah Bridge and on the Muar River. After the British defeat at Slim River, General Archibald Wavell, commander of ABDA, decided that Lieutenant General Lewis Heath's III Indian Corps should withdraw 240 kilometres (150 miles) south into the State of Johore to rest and regroup, whilst the 8th Australian Division would attempt to stop the Japanese advance.Allied soldiers, under the command of Major General Gordon Bennett, inflicted severe losses on Japanese forces at the Gemensah Bridge ambush and in a second battle a few kilometres north of the town of Gemas. Members of the Australian 8th Division killed an estimated 700 personnel from the Japanese Imperial Guards Division, in the ambush at the bridge itself, whilst Australian anti-tank guns destroyed several Japanese tanks in the battle north of Gemas.Although the ambush was successful for the Allies, the defence of Muar and Bakri on the west coast was a complete failure which resulted in the near-annihilation of the 45th Indian Infantry Brigade and heavy casualties for its two attached Australian infantry battalions. This was the first engagement between units of the British 18th Division and Japanese forces in Malaya.