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	ipedia.com: Australian Army Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The first Australian division to see action on the Western Front was the 5th Division which was thrown unprepared into the futile Battle of Fromelles, a "diversion" that cost the division 5,500 casualties for no gain.
		As fears of war with Japan mounted, most of the 8th Division was sent to Singapore, to strengthen the British garrison; the remaining battalions were deployed in the islands to Australia's north, at Rabaul, Ambon and Timor.
		Australian units were also responsible for the last phase of amphibious assaults during the Pacific War: the attacks on Japanese-occupied Borneo, including Tarakan, Brunei, British Borneo, Balikpapan and other targets in Sarawak.
	www.ipedia.com /australian_army.html (2678 words)

	1st Division (Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1st Division's role in the August Offensive was to hold the front line and conduct a diversion on 400 Plateau at Lone Pine on 6 August.
		The 1st Division's artillery batteries in front of Lagnicourt were overrun and the village was occupied for two hours but counter-attacks from the Australian 9th and 20th Battalions (the latter from the 2nd Division) drove the Germans out.
		The 1st Division's artillery was in action from the start of the Third Battle of Ypres on 31 July 1917 but the infantry were not called upon until the second phase of the battle commenced on 20 September with the Battle of Menin Road.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_1st_Division_(World_War_I) (2112 words)

	The World at War
		In 1929 a cadre of tank-trained officers and men was raised, the First Australian Tank Section was formed at Randwick in the State of New South Wales and the Second Australian Tank Section was raised in the State of Victoria.
		The project for an Australian made tank was also exacerbated by the Army attempting to lay the specifications on the design perimeters on a turret type tank capable of fighting German AFV’s.
		The Australian cruiser tank, or Sentinel with its cast hull, for a tank of this size, had preceded the American M48 by ten years and was acknowledged as a real contribution, at the time.
	worldatwar.net /article/australiantank/tank41.html (1008 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Special: ANZAC Memories
		The 1st Infantry Division and the 1st Light Horse Brigade were to be enlisted, readied and dispatched overseas in approximately six weeks from the time war was declared.
		It was divided, and for the rest of the war the Australians would fight in two widely separated theatres: France and the Middle East.
		Beginning with the diversionary attack at Fromelles by the 5th Division in which they suffered 5,533 casualties in a single twenty-four hour period, the Australians were fed in to successive attacks in which enormous casualties were sustained for minimal gains in ground.
	www.worldwar1.com /sfanzac.htm (1115 words)

	Korea; an outline of the "forgotten" war with photos
		Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force in Korea, or in the waters adjacent to Korea, during the conflict and after the ceasefire, between 27 June 1950 and 19 April 1956.
		At that point in the war the United Nations forces had been forced back to the Pusan Perimeter where they were fighting a desperate battle for survival; it was not long before the Australians were in the thick of the fighting as part of the newly formed Commonwealth Brigade.
		Australian soldiers are standing to attention in their snow covered camp during the Korean War in 1951.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/malaya-korea/korea.htm (1719 words)

	1st World War
		There were also some Australians in Codford with the New Zealand contingent, and there are the graves of 31 Australians in the Codford St Mary New Churchyard.
		The names of 142 Australians and 2 sisters are recorded in the Australian Chapel in St John's Church and are interred in the churchyard.
		At the end of that year the Australians returned home, the huts were demolished, the Camp railway lifted, and the peace and tranquility of village life returned.
	suttonveny.co.uk /1st_World_War/1st_world_war.html (896 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Talbot Hobbs
		With the outbreak of war in August 1914 Hobbs was chosen by William Bridges to command 1st Division Artillery, although he never assumed full command until it reached Egypt en route for Gallipoli.
		More successfully 5th Division performed well at Polygon Wood in September 1917 (for which Hobbs was knighted in January 1918) and went on to play a key role in the capture of Villers-Bretonneux in April 1918.
		In its final campaign of the war 5th Division performed with merit at the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918, in capturing Peronne on 2 September and in piercing the Hindenburg Line at Bellicourt.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/hobbs.htm (583 words)

	Austalian PSYOP
		The 1st Psychological Operations Unit was formed as a divisional unit and allocated for duty with the 1st Australian Task Force.
		When the Australian 1st Psychological Operations Unit was formed it consisted of: Major Frank Cross, Commanding Officer, Sergeant Tetlow (establishment and operations), an administrative corporal, myself, a Vietnamese interpreter from the ARVN, and a small detachment of US Psychological Operations personnel.
		Australian Leaflet ATF-053-70 is a form of rural development leaflet where the government gives helpful instructions to the populace in an attempt to make their life better and their loyalty to the regime stronger.
	www.psywarrior.com /AustralianVNPSYOP.html (10705 words)

	The Great Divide - Australia's class war
		In the Bore War, the event came in the form of the court marshalling of Australian soldier Breaker Morant.
		In World War II, it was the fall of Singapore.
		This reflects a third division, being "Sterling", a name for the British-born, and the "Currency", the home-grown population.
	www.convictcreations.com /history/classwar.htm (1566 words)

	Ranville War Cemetery
		The village of Ranville was an objective of 6th (Airborne) Division on 6th June 1944, and was captued by units of this formation on the morning of D Day.
		After the Second World War the site was chosen to regroup burials from this part of the battlefield, and graves were brought in from a number of areas, including: Amfreville, Colleville-sur-Orne, Houlgate, Colombelles and Villers-sur-Mer.
		The War Cemetery is in Rue des Airbornes.
	battlefieldsww2.50megs.com /ranville_war_cemetery.htm (239 words)

	Part 1-World War Two
		Australian Armour was well represented in WW Two, and indeed an Armoured Division was raised in Western Australia.
		With the advent of World War 2, the 1
		Australian Armoured Regiment with the task of raising A squadron of that Regiment and later B Squadron.
	members.tripod.com /sitrep1/cav28c.htm (1076 words)

	A World War I Photo Essay
		Tending the wounded of the 1st Lancashire Fusliers.
		The featureless and empty battlefield came increasingly to characterize the war on the Western Front from 1915 onwards.
		Casualty evacuation on First World War battlefields was extremely difficult at all times and never more so than during the notorious "Passchendaele" campaign.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/ww1/photoessay.htm (474 words)

	CNN.com - Massive firestorm targets Iraqi leadership - Mar. 21, 2003
		The commander was in charge of Iraq's 51st Division, a regular army unit deployed in southern Iraq directly in the path of the allied invasion.
		In an attempt to convince the world that Saddam survived the bombing, Iraqi state television broadcast pictures of what it said was the Iraqi leader meeting Friday with his son Qusay.
		The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and coalition troops secured the port city of Umm Qasr in the Faw Peninsula and the main oil manifolds along the waterways there.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/21/sprj.irq.war.main/index.html (1445 words)

	world war 1
		It is also important that the highest death ratio occurred early in the war, but as the war progressed and defensive measures improved, the ratio decreased.
		Finally in 1969, the trenches, the gas, and the pressures of war claimed this man whose life was taken from him by the war.
		The actions of Princip and his co-conpirators was called "the spark that started World War I." As a result of the assassination, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatium to Serbia placing the blame at their doorstep.
	www.hannasd.org /sths/war2/wwone.htm (4748 words)

	1RAR War Diary
		Toby Ralston MM modestly declined to offer his personal story but provided a copy of 1 RAR's War Diary that is so brief and lacking in detail that it raises the question whether it is the original or whether it is a summary.
		The War Diary does not record happenings from 19th June to 8th July when the Battalion at Wangjing-Myon (North Korea), on Jamestown Line was positioned on the left flank of the 29th British Infantry Brigade.
		On their right they had the 15 ROK Regt (Republic of Korea) of 1st ROK Division (the Elite Capitol Division) On the right was 3 RAR.
	www.kmike.com /oz/1rar/ralston.htm (1848 words)

	World War 2
		By the end of the war in September, 1945, there were still only 479 fl nurses within the Corps of some 50,000 due to the quota system of the then segregated Army.
		The Army Nurse Corps in World War II - A well compiled site which includes a brief overview, early operations in the pacific, fl army nurses, Sicily and Southern Italy operations, the European theater and vintage photographs.
		2/10 Australian Field Ambulance was formed in the Newcastle and Northern Rivers regions of New South Wales, and became part of 27 Infantry Brigade, 8th Australian Division.
	www.nurses.info /specialty_military_nursing_war_main_ww2.htm (614 words)

	INTRODUCTION: Dating Shoulder Sleeve Insignia
		Shoulder sleeve insignia of prior to the Second World War were often manufactured of felt on felt.
		Many World War One units were not active during the postwar period and should not have postwar variations.
		Some of them were worn during the war as witnessed by examples off of veterans uniforms; however, large numbers of unused patches made in this style were sold to collectors during the post-war period.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/patches/intro/dating.html (552 words)

	Groesbeek War Cemetery
		Within the cemetery stands the Groesbeek Memorial, which commemorates by name more than 1,000 members of the Commonwealth land forces who died during the campaign in north-west Europe between the time of crossing the Seine at the end of August 1944 and the end of the war in Europe, and whose graves are not known.
		Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery is 3 kilometers north of the village and 1.5 kilometer east of the main road to Nijmegen.
		After passing Mook War Cemetery continue to the village of Groesbeek to a roundabout.
	battlefieldsww2.50megs.com /groesbeek_war_cemetery.htm (473 words)

	Dinocrat » War
		Censorship in the Islamic world is instilled at childhood.
		In dealing with a world in which everyone is taught from childhood that God demands submission — whether or not such submission is reasonable — it is foolhardy in the extreme to be weak.
		The Korean War began the change in the American concept of war away from total war, or what was called at the time “general war,” to a form of war that was more “civilized” and “less dangerous” in the minds of social scientists.
	www.dinocrat.com /archives/category/war (8128 words)

	Today in Iraq
		Bring 'em on: One Soldier assigned to 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group and One Soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died Tuesday from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province.
		He says he feels disillusioned with the war, betrayed by Bush and the military leadership, and resentful of the physical and emotional effect the fighting has had on him, including sleepless nights and a "jumpy" demeanor.
		And while American war planners discuss the way ahead, Iraqis on this scarred block are stuck in the past on the morning of July 13, 2005, when time stopped and the war truly began for them.
	dailywarnews.blogspot.com (13631 words)

	World War I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Herbert Carman - Private, 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, died 3 September 1916, buried Theipval Memorial, France.
		the Australian national memorial erected to commemorate all Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First World War, to their dead, and especially to those of the dead whose graves are not known.
		The 10,770 Australian servicemen actually named on the memorial died in the battlefields of the Somme, Arras, the German advance of 1918
	www.carman.net /world_war_i.htm (1073 words)

	World War II Re-enactors
		We are dedicated to preserving the memory of the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron, 1st (British) Airborne Division, the Reconnaissance Corps, and all of the British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought during that conflict.
		We are a parent organization for World War II American Airborne Units.
		We are a group of men from Buffalo, NY who portray the average US Infantry GI of World War 2.
	k.webring.com /hub?ring=ww2allies (706 words)

	The war comes to Congress \| The World \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Reid, not the most of charismatic of performers, works through his speech and like Pelosi in her inaugural address a little later, puts Iraq front and centre of this new Congress.
		Bush rejects the Vietnam War comparison but clearly when it comes to the polls from the days of Vietnam and those measuring opinion on Iraq there's no separating them in the eyes of the voters.
		As part of a new strategy, Bush is also rearranging personnel, not only cognisant of the problems in Iraq but to try to energise his administration in his final two years in office.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,21016678-2703,00.html (2101 words)

	HyperWar: Glossary
		Australia-New Zealand Army Corps (World War I) Armor piercing
		War Plans Division, U.S. Army (before March 1942)
		Return to HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/Glossary.html (213 words)

	Infantry - Wikimedia Commons
		US assault troops at Omaha Beach, D-Day 1944
		US 1st infantry division crossing the Weser 1945
		US infantrymen advance into Belgian town, supported by a M4 Sherman tank 1944
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Infantry (84 words)

	12th BN ANZAC Web Site
		The 12th BN is a Living history Organization based out of Southern California.
		We portray the Australian foot solider of World War One.
		Quick History of 12th BN Links and Contact
	www.henrick.com /ww1 (70 words)

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