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	World War I information - Search.com
		Some war memorials date the end of the war as being when the Versailles treaty was signed in 1919; by contrast, most commemorations of the war's end concentrate on the armistice of November 11 1918.
		During the war, the Haber process of nitrogen fixation was employed to provide the German forces with a continuing supply of powder for the ongoing conflict in the face of British naval control over the trade routes for naturally occurring nitrates.
		In the Australian and New Zealand popular minds, the First World War became known as the nation's "baptism of fire", as it was the first major war in which the newly established countries fought, and it is one of the first cases where Australian troops fought as Australians, not just subjects of the British Crown.
	www.search.com /reference/World_War_I (10755 words)

	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Encyclopedia Article @ Endured.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in the News
		Australasia ANZAC came to stand not just for the troops in World War I, but for Australian and New Zealand soldiers in time of war more generally.
		Australian 2nd Division began to arrive from Australia in August 1915 and some battalions saw action on Gallipoli in the final months of the campaign.
	www.endured.net /encyclopedia/Australian_and_New_Zealand_Army_Corps (743 words)

	KWVA: Brief Account of the Korean War
		War correspondent Tom Lambert reported it as the “first sizeable American ground victory of the Korean War.” Captain Charles Bussey, a fl fighter pilot during World War II, won a Silver Star as a combat engineer.
		To their left, the U.S. 2nd and 25th Divisions were also hit with furious assaults and penetrated in some spots, but were able to restore the situation and hold.
		Two regiments of the 2nd were almost destroyed at Kunu-ri, but the rest of the Army withdrew in good order, using their mobility to outdistance the slower moving CCF, who could maintain an offensive for only a few days.
	www.kwva.org /brief_account_of_the_korean_war.htm (9911 words)

	WWII WORLD WAR TWO
		World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest war in human history.
		This was a significant contributing factor in the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
		Resistance during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns.
	www.solarnavigator.net /world_war_two.htm (9668 words)

	Second World War: 14 to 18 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		World War II Memories: Krista Salter's website is dedicated to an English father and Austrian mother and many others who were a part of the Second World War.
		World War II Plus 55: This award-winning web-page, hosted on the site of the battleship USS Washington's reunion group, is a day-by-day history of World War II.
		Aerial Reconnaissance in World War Two: During World War Two, aerial reconnaissance was one of the key methods of obtaining intelligence about the enemy and their activities.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVhistory2WW3.htm (6620 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)

	30th Division "Old Hickory" - North Carolinians in World War I
		The division garnered several distinctions in the war: it was the first to break the German Hindenburg Line on the Cambrai-St. Quentin front, and its soldiers were awarded more Congressional Medals of Honor than those in any other American division.
		The 30th Division was assigned to the American 2nd Corps, and attached to the British Army.
		After the war it remained in France and was not part of the Army of Occupation.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /archives/wwi/OldNorthState/30thdivision.htm (699 words)

	Centre for First World War Studies
		Legge spent the early part of the war superintending training, but in May 1915 he was chosen to succeed Bridges as GOC 1st Australian Division and commander of the AIF, following Bridges’ death at the hands of a Turkish sniper on Gallipoli.
		2nd Division was not committed to the Gallipoli fighting until August, when it was used piecemeal.
		On 28-29 July the division attempted to capture the Pozières Heights, in the first big Australian attack of the war in France.
	www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk /donkey/legge.htm (851 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| Battle of Cape Matapan: World War II Italian Naval Massacre
		The 2nd Destroyer Flotilla and the light cruiser squadron under Vice Adm. Henry D. Pridham-Wippell at Piraeus, Greece, were alerted.
		The 1st Division from Taranto, under Admiral Carlo Cattaneo, consisted of the heavy cruisers Pola, Zara and Fiume, along with four destroyers.
		At 1800 hours Iachino was advised that as a consequence of the Sunderland identification the sweep north of Crete by the 1st Cruiser Division would be canceled, and the fleet would concentrate its forces south of the island and sweep northward past Cape Matapan at the southern tip of Greece.
	www.historynet.com /magazines/world_war_2/3029406.html (1468 words)

	Australian 2nd Division (World War I) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Australian 2nd Division was formed from reinforcements training in Egypt on July 10, 1915 as part of the Australian Imperial Force to fight in World War I.
		It fought at Gallipoli during the latter stages of the campaign and then moved to the Western Front in France where it was the last Australian division to see combat.
		After the war ended and the AIF was demobilised, the 2nd Division name was revived and assigned to an Australian Citizens Military Forces (reserve) unit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_2nd_Division_(World_War_I) (154 words)

	Australian 2nd Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1915, a 2nd Division was formed as part of the First Australian Imperial Force.
		In 1921, the 2nd Division name was revived and was assigned to a formation of Australian Citizens Military Forces (reserve) units from New South Wales; the division served in the South West Pacific Area during World War II.
		The current 2nd Division is the administrative formation of the current Australian Army responsible for the majority of Army Reserve units tasked with the home defence of Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_2nd_Division (176 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Charles Rosenthal
		The First World War war began with Rosenthal in command of 5th Field Brigade Australian Artillery with the rank of Major.
		He was appointed artillery commander of 4th Division (with a promotion to Colonel and temporary Brigadier-General) and served during the Battle of the Somme, during the course of which he received a further wound, partly on account of his tendency to pay repeated visits to the front lines.
		May 1918 brought Rosenthal notable promotion to Major-General with command of 2nd Division (having served as temporary commander of 1st Division for a month in January/February 1918), during the course of which he was wounded once again, temporarily leading his division from a hospital bed until Australian commander Sir John Monash intervened.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/rosenthal.htm (516 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)

	A World War I Photo Essay
		Artillery was the greatest killer, the major cause of trench deadlock and, eventually, massively augmented, the principal instrument of victory.
		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)

	Second World War, 1939-1945
		Australian Army in the Second World War, by David A. Ryan.
		The World at War: History of WW 1939-1945, by Wilfried Braakhuis.
		Chronology of World War II Diplomacy 1939-1945, by Richard Doody (The World at War)
	www.regiments.org /wars/20ww2/ww2index.htm (980 words)

	B-P's Cousin: Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, V.C.
		Spending the majority of the war in command of Australian forces, Smyth was given command of 2nd Australian Division in December 1916, leading them until May 1918.
		After the ‘Australianisation’ of the Australian Corps in the spring of 1918 Smyth commanded the British 58th and 59th Divisions.
		In 2004, Commodore Smyth was one of ten Australians to receive the French Legion of Honor recognizing his service and that of other Australians on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-cousin-nevill-smyth-vc.htm (1167 words)

	Venray War Cemetery
		Venray War Cemetery contains 691 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 30 of them unidentified, and one Polish burial.
		Soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division and 11th (Armoured) Division are particularly numerous here, along with men from 6th (Airborne) Division who were in this area prior to the Rhine Crossing in 1945.
		Venray is located 40 kilometers east of Eindhoven in the south east province of Limburg.
	battlefieldsww2.50megs.com /venray_war_cemetery.htm (179 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| Letters from Readers
		The “Commands” article on the 2/9th Australian Imperial Forces Battalion in the April 2006 issue of World War II reawakened some memories of my service in the G-2 drafting section of General Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters.
		I thought your readers might enjoy this picture I took during the war of Australians of the 7th Division marching through Brisbane.
		O.E. Hawkins, Tom Miller, Jake Koppler, Brant Johnson and Mike Guerra were the only World War II veterans able to attend.
	www.historynet.com /magazines/world_war_2/4656356.html (902 words)

	AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS of WAR - World War 2
		AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS of WAR - World War 2
		Japanese Atrocities commited on Australian Prisoners of War.
		Promoted to Lt Col to command 2/19th Australian Infantry Battalion, 22nd Australian Infantry Brigade, 8th Australian Division; Awarded VICTORIA CROSS for his action at the Battle of Maur, Malaya.
	www.angelfire.com /alt2/prisonersofwar (842 words)

	World War I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		t this time I am aware of only one that fell in World War I from the United States.
		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 ONE BOOKS - FROM C. CLAYTON THOMPSON - BOOKSELLER
		The war also led to important developments in literature, technology, music and social equality that have shaped the culture of 21st century America.
		Her raw images and painful depiction of the "wounds of war" led the publishers to withdraw the book during the propaganda efforts that accompanied American entry into the war.
		This is the story of the making of official war films and its value is enhanced by a new 40 page introduction by Dr. Nicolas Hiley, a noted authority on WW I film.
	www.civilwarmall.com /bookseller/files/wwi.htm (14588 words)

	42nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force
		no 42nd Battalion was formed in the 2nd AIF (Second World War), but 42nd Battalion CMF was mobilised in 1941
		The Great War: Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Somme 1918, Ancre 1918, Hamel, Amiens, Albert 1918, Mont St. Quentin, Hindenburg Line, St. Quentin Canal, France and Flanders 1916-18
		The spirit of the Forty-Second : narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/australia/warformed/inf-aif/42aif.htm (122 words)

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