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	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
		ANZAC (abbreviation for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) first referred to a body of Australian and New Zealand troops who fought in World War I at Gallipoli, in the Middle East and on the Western Front.
		Australian and New Zealand Divisions were involved in a number of the Battles of the Somme, July to November, 1916, while components of British corps but it was only during the Battle of Pozieres[?], 23rd July 1916, that an Anzac formation participated.
		2nd ANZAC (Australian 3rd and 4th Divisions, New Zealand Division plus the British 25th Division) fought in the Battle of Messines[?], July 1917, which was a prelude to an Allied offensive from the Ypres salient.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Anzac.html (481 words)

	World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The war was fought in response to the expansionist and racist aggression of Nazi Germany under the dictator Adolf Hitler.
		World War II had begun in East Asia in 1937 when Japan invaded China.In the summer of 1941, the United States began an oil embargo against Japan, which was a protest of Japan's incursion into French Indo-China and the continued invasion of China.
		It was one of the bloodiest sieges of the war.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-World_War_II (8617 words)

	The World at War
		In these the early stages of the war, there was no particular worry about home defence and Australians believed the 2nd AIF (Australian Imperial Force) would be deployed in exactly the same manner as the 1st AIF in World War 1: that is as Great Britain saw fit.
		Australian soldiers of the 9th Division and one brigade of the 7th Division held out at Tobruk for 5 months against the opposition of Rommel and the Afrika Korps.
		The period from September 1939 (the Beginning of World War 2 in Europe) until February 1942 (the fall of Singapore) is one of the most revolutionary in Australia’s history.
	worldatwar.net /article/australiaswar (1625 words)

	First World War [Australian War Memorial]
		The First World War was the first armed conflict in which aircraft were used; about 3,000 Australian airmen served in the Middle East and France with the Australian Flying Corps, mainly in observation capacities or providing infantry support.
		Australian nurses served in Egypt, France, Greece and India, often in trying conditions or close to the front, where they were exposed to shelling and aerial bombardment.
		When the war ended, thousands of ex-servicemen, many disabled with physical or emotional wounds, had to be re-integrated into a society which was keen to consign the war to the past and resume normal life.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/ww1.htm (1334 words)

	More on World War 2
		World War II was the most extensive and most costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theaters, and costing approximately 50 million lives.
		The war was fought chiefly between an alliance of the United States, the Soviet Union, China and Britain (known as the Allies), and the Axis Powers, an alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan.
		After the war, many high-ranking Germans were prosecuted for war crimes, as well as the mass murder of the Holocaust committed mainly on the area of General Government, in the Nuremberg trials.
	www.eduhistory.com /world-war-2.htm (2800 words)

	Further Reading - John Monash
		General Sir John Monash (27 June 1865 - 8 October 1931), Australian military commander of the World War I, was born in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), to parents of Prussian-Jewish origin (the family name was originally spelled Monasch).
		When the Australian Imperial Force (1st) was formed, he was sent with the 4th Infantry Brigade to Egypt, where, like most Australian troops, he experienced the effects of bad British organisation, planning, and command.
		By June 1916 Monash was in France, with the rank of major general and in charge of the new Australian 3rd Division (World War I).
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Adachi5441/john-monash-further-reading.html (696 words)

	First World War Pathfinder
		World War I was, in many ways, the opening act of the global tragedy whose second act closed with World War II.
		Those individuals who led their nations through World War II and into the Cold War were, in many cases, combatants who survived the carnage of the World War I battlefield.
		One of France's greatest historians, Bloch served as a sergeant in the First World War, as a lieutenant in the Second, and was executed in 1944 by the Nazis for resistance activities.
	www.ils.unc.edu /dpr/path/firstworldwar (2784 words)

	World War 2; a Category index
		Australian losses for the whole period of the El Alamein operations from 7 July were 5809, including 1225 dead, 3638 wounded and 946 taken prisoner.
		From October 1944 onwards the 3rd Division and two independent brigades were moved to the Solomons, the 5th Division was allotted to New Britain and the 6th Division to Aitape, while the 8th Brigade continued its operations in the Madang-Sepik River area.
		On 29 November, the unofficial policy of live-and-let-live between the American and Japanese forces on Bougainville was broken by the 3rd Division offensives to the north, across the centre and to the south of the Island.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww2/0-ww2-cat-index.htm (2933 words)

	Second World War: 14 to 18 years
		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)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| Battle of Cape Matapan: World War II Italian Naval Massacre
		The 1st Division from Taranto, under Admiral Carlo Cattaneo, consisted of the heavy cruisers Pola, Zara and Fiume, along with four destroyers.
		Last was the 3rd Division from Messina, Sicily, under Admiral Luigi Sansonetti, with the heavy cruisers Trieste, Trento and Bolzano, accompanied by three 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 (1471 words)

	The World at War - Robertson
		In due time with the raising of the Second AIF divisions for overseas service Brigadier Robertson became one of the three brigade commanders in the 6th AIF Division as senior officers were posted to new formations.
		Although reduction in BCOF had been considerable and the Australian government reluctant to allow units becoming involved in Korean operations Robertson's role was one of administration for the commonwealth force being assembled and those air assets being activated for action.
		During these difficult days the establishment of the Commonwealth Division owed much to the effectiveness of Robertson's command and when it became operational the mixed formation went on to be regarded as one of the best in that most difficult theatre of war.
	worldatwar.net /biography/r/robertson (1493 words)

	WWII Page
		He was a member of the 3rd Armored Division, the Spearhead that drove into the heart of Nazi Germany.
		The unstoppable 3rd was the first allied unit to enter Germany, the first to capture a German town (Roetgen), and the first to breach the infamous Siegfried Line.
		When it was all over, the division's artillery officer reported that 490,021 rounds of 105mm ammunition had been fired between D-Day and VE Day, more than any other division in the European theater.
	www.geocities.com /ResearchTriangle/Facility/3991/ww2history.htm (610 words)

	Australian 3rd Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1916, a 3rd Division was formed as part of the First Australian Imperial Force.
		When World War I ended the division was demobilised.
		In 1921, the 3rd Division name was revived and was assigned to an Australian Citizens Military Forces (reserve) unit, which served in the South West Pacific Area during World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_3rd_Division (141 words)

	Japanese Atrocities on Australian Prisoners of War World War 2
		I was taken prisoner of war by the Japanese in Java on 9 Mar 1942.
		I remained a prisoner of war in various camps until we embarked at Batavia on 3 Jan 1943 for Singapore.
		After about ten days at Singapore I was a prisoner of war in various camps in Thailand the last of them being NIKI where we went about July 1945 and remained until release in Sep 1945.
	www.angelfire.com /alt2/prisonersofwar/japaneseatrocities.html (3669 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)

	Australian 3rd Division (World War I) information information - Search.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Australian 3rd Division was a World War I infantry division formed in Australia in March 1916 and which began to arrive in England in July at which time General John Monash was appointed as the commander.
		The division underwent training on Salisbury Plain before moving to France at the end of 1916.
		After the war ended and the AIF was demobilised, the 3rd Division name was revived and assigned to an Australian Citizens Military Forces (reserve) unit.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com.cob-web.org:8888 /reference/Australian_3rd_Division_(World_War_I) (125 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)

	AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS of WAR - World War 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Japanese Atrocities commited on Australian Prisoners of War.
		The following Prisoners of War of both Malaya and Germany became Federal Members of the Australian Parliament.
		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)

	UNT Department of History: World War I Web Resources
		images, poetry, famous speeches, essays on battles such as Bannockburn, Gallipolli, the Western Front and the Pacific war.
		A Smithsonian exhibit of aircraft and air power in WWI with an effort at a "proper perspective" and examination of "the contradictions between the myths and realities of World War I combat."
		War Artists from the First World War (Archives of Ontario)
	www.hist.unt.edu /web_resources_mil/ww1.htm (446 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)

	WORLD WAR ONE BOOKS - FROM C. CLAYTON THOMPSON - BOOKSELLER
		Long before the U.S. entered the war, a small group of daredevil Americans went overseas to join France's desperate struggle by flying the flimsy warplanes of those heroic days.
		The 6th Marine Regiment was part of the 4th (Marine) Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division.
		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 (14274 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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