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	Second Australian Imperial Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From late 1940, the 6th, 7th and 9th Divisions, as the Australian I Corps under Blamey, faced Italian, German and/or Vichy French forces in the Middle East, Greece and/or North Africa.
		The 6th and 7th Divisions, with elements of the 1st Armoured, formed a large part of the Allied forces which destroyed the major Japanese beachhead in New Guinea, at the Battle of Buna-Gona.
		Australian prisoners of war, like other Allied prisoners of the Japanese, were often held in inhumane conditions, such as Changi prison or in Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Australian_Imperial_Force (759 words)

	Australian 6th Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 6th Division of the Australian Army was a unit in the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF) during World War II.
		During the campaign, the division saw action against the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (which was a motorised infantry brigade at the time), becoming the only Australian Army unit to face elite Waffen SS soldiers in combat.
		During 1943, the division was converted to a Jungle Division and 17th Brigade and other elements of the division took part in the Wau, Mubo, Markham Valley and Salamaua campaigns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_6th_Division (608 words)

	Australian Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australian soldiers have been involved in a number of minor and major conflicts throughout its history, but only in World War II did Australian territory come under direct attack.
		The 3rd Bn is classed as a light infantry unit in the parachute role, though it is scheduled to convert to a mechanized battalion by 2011.
		The ranks of the Australian Army are based on the ranks of the British Army, and carry mostly the same actual insignia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Army (1539 words)

	TOBRUK [Australian War Memorial]
		Division in the fore, sweep the Italians from the Western Desert all the way to Benghazi and beyond.
		Division) to honour our pledge to Greece, made our position precarious and with the arrival of General Rommel and his Afrika Corps on the scene it was now our turn to retreat.
		Australian Division was relieved by the newly-formed 9
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/tobruk/581.htm (929 words)

	The Australians at War Film Archive - 1
		The 6th Division, Australian Imperial Force was selected to take over from the Indian division that had led the advance.
		One of the greatest difficulties faced by the British and Australian forces was a shortage of motor transport.
		In April 1941, the 6th Division was withdrawn and sent to Greece.
	www.australiansatwarfilmarchive.gov.au /aawfa/campaigns/Bardia.html (775 words)

	6th Australian Division
		Hughes the Australian Prime Minister suggested the formation of a 6th Australian Division.
		Du to the difficulty in replacing the heavy casualties sustained in the battles around Bullecourt the 16th Australian Brigade was broken up in May 1917 and the formation of the 6th Austarlain Division abandoned.
		In November 1917 the British Secretary of State for War again requested that a 6th Australian Division be formed.
	orbat.com /site/warpath/anzac/6_aus_div.htm (174 words)

	Papua New Guinea Forum - Lae - Operations in New Guinea
		The seizure of bases in New Britain was allotted to divisions of the Sixth American Army; the tasks on the New Guinea mainland to I Australian Corps, including the 7th, 9th, 5th and 11th Australian Divisions.
		The division now advanced northward both along the coast and along the highlands overlooking it, and by mid-December the Japanese were in full retreat, although their rearguards were fighting stubbornly.
		Australian patrols were operating south of the Torricelli mountains, which overlook the narrow coastal strip and from which fast-flowing rivers descend to the sea at intervals of from three to ten miles.
	www.pngbd.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-5923 (2509 words)

	World War II's Opening Salvoes in North Africa
		The British 7th Armoured Division was its model mobile force, and it was backed up by the 4th Indian Division and the 6th Australian Division, the elite of both nation's armies.
		The division rode trucks painted with the division's symbol, a leaping kangaroo, to the battle area.
		O'Connor's plan called for the 6th Australian Division to hit Derna and the Italian 21st Corps on the coast, while the 7th Armoured would put the Babini Tank Brigade at Mechili in a pincer, cutting the Italian armor inland from the coastal infantry.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/wwii1.htm (6637 words)

	This Month in Australian Military History
		Australian ships were operating in support of United States amphibious landings in the Lingayen Gulf, Philippines when the Australia, for the second time in the war, became one of seven Allied ships to be struck by Kamikaze aircraft.
		The capture of Sio by the 9th Australian Division represented the final destruction of the Japanese 20th Division in the protracted Huon Peninsula campaign of 1943-1944.
		John Treloar, Director of Australian War Memorial between 1920 and 1952, was a staunch advocate of the need for a permanent building to house the vast collections of records and relics that had been collected during and after the First World War.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/thismonth/jan.htm (1743 words)

	Avalanche Press
		As the British 2nd Armored Division defended its forward positions at El Agheila in response to Axis pressure, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment and Kings Dragoon Guards established an ambush in hopes of inflicting casualties on the probing Germans spotted the day before while the 9th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade dug in behind them.
		On the morning of the 25th of January a squadron of 6th Australian Division's Cavalry regiment relieved the British forces screening Italian-occupied Derna and the airfield south of Derna.
		Shortly after noon, the 2/11th Battalion, the one battalion of the 6th Australian Division that had not been involved in the reduction of Tobruk and Bardia, arrived.
	www.avalanchepress.com /AfrikaKorpsScenarios.php (1484 words)

	Northwest Historical Association (NWHA) - WW2 Reenacting Society
		He was given the 6th Australian Division for the assault with the 7th Armoured Division (Desert Rats) providing support.
		The Australian field commander was able to shift armour and artillery resources to this flank when its advance faltered, allowing it to overcome local resistance.
		Australian forces were able to concentrate on objectives, split the enemy's forces and take their artillery and command structure out of the fighting.
	www.nwha.org /news_3Q2001/news_page10.html (2147 words)

	Australians at War
		Australian, British Commonwealth and Polish troops were besieged in Tobruk by the Germans and Italians until relieved in December.
		Australian aircrew served with the Royal Air Force in the bomber offensive against Germany and in the invasions of Europe.
		Australian soldiers fought in a number of bitterly contested actions, including Kapyong and Maryang San, and mounted numerous patrols and raids during the static war which developed from late 1951 to July 1953 while armistice negotiations dragged on.
	www.irishaustralia.com /Australian/Defence/ozatwar.htm (3792 words)

	MagWeb Europa: WWII North Africa: British vs. Italians: 57 Military History and Product Magazines
		The division, a mixture of "old sweats" and new volunteers, rode trucks painted with the division's symbol, a leaping kangaroo, to the battle area.
		Australian gunners prepared their bombardment thoroughly, to make up for the shortage of tanks -- there were only 18 to support the attack.
		It was just possible for the division to move out with full vehicles 11th Hussars had already started; the rest of the division would move on the 5th, with barely 45 heavy tanks, 80 light tanks, two days' supplies of food and water, and two refills of ammunition.
	www.magweb.com /sample/seuropa/seu55daw.htm (9336 words)

	The Australian Soldier: a portrait, by John Hetherington
		Their battalion was in retreat, but the Australians would not abandon the donkeys that had served them faithfully when they were fighting in a rugged sector of the mountains inaccessible to motor transport, where only donkeys could clamber through with supplies.
		Australian eyes turned anxiously to the north as Japan captured the 'East Indies, and, from Rabaul, advanced to Lae and Salamaua on the north-east coast of New Guinea and over the mountains towards Port Moresby.
		If the picture of the Australian Soldier that emerges from this tale is true at all, then it is as true of the officers and men of any division of the A.I.F. as of the officers and men of any other division.
	www.diggerhistory2.info /soldier (1359 words)

	Australian Armor
		The 3rd Australian Infantry Division was sent to Bouganville in the Solomon Islands, accompanying them was the 2/4th Australian Armored Regiment equipped with Matilda MK II infantry tanks and at least one Coventanter bridge laying tank.
		Australian War Memorial Negative Number 094222, is a photograph of a Coventanter bridge laying tank on 20 July 1945 on a road washed away on the Ogorata and Mobiai Rivers on South Bougainville - proof that the tank was used operationally.
		Indian Infantry divisions operating in Italy 1943-45, all appear to be equipped with MK II and later marks of the Armored Carrier 4 Wheel Indian pattern.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~akirk/tanks/aus/Australian.htm (1787 words)

	The Australian War Memorial and Anzac Parade: Factsheet
		The majestic Australian War Memorial (AWM) and Anzac Parade are at the heart of the nation's tribute to the courage and sacrifice of generations of the men and women who have helped defend our nation.
		In 1941 the Australian Government extended the Memorial's charter to include the Second World War; in 1952 it was extended again to include all armed conflicts that Australia was involved in – the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Gulf wars and peacekeeping operations.
		The unknown Australian soldier was buried in a Tasmanian flwood coffin with a slouch hat and a sprig of wattle, and soil from the Pozieres battlefield was scattered in his tomb.
	www.deh.gov.au /heritage/national/sites/war-memorial-factsheet.html (1129 words)

	Gunners Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The CRA 6th Australian Division had the honour of commanding the composite force thus constituted.
		At Royal Australian Artillery Headquarters the CRA and his staff were extremely fortunate in having the assistance of a senior officer of the RA (Lieut-Colonel (afterwards Brigadier) J.H. Frowen, D.S.O., O.B.E.) whose unrivalled ability as a practical gunner combined with his great technical knowledge contributed very largely to the success attained.
		But all Australian Gunners, proud as they are of the part they were privileged to play in Greece, will always remember the magnificent work done there by 2nd RHA and 7th and 64th Medium Regiments RA.
	gunnersnet.com /gnrs0041.html (614 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - June 5th and 6th , 1942
		Australians, New Zealanders, and Canadians also forged powerful alliances with British and American forces in the heat of battle, fighting shoulder to shoulder in the Solomon Islands, North Africa, New Guinea, Italy, and across oceans and skies.
		A marble-playing little girl from The Netherlands named Anne Frank would spend the last years of her short life hiding from the Nazis in an attic, writing a diary that would become required reading for generations and a testament of unconquerable hope in the face of unimaginable terror.
		An Australian doctor named Weary Dunlop would also keep a diary, recording the suffering and survival of himself and his fellow Prisoners of War as they labored to build the Railway of Death for the Japanese in Thailand.
	www.usswashington.com /dl_preamb.htm (6983 words)

	1941
		Australian 6th Division breaks through the Italian defences around Bardia.
		British and Australian forces breach the defences at Tobruk.
		British and Soviet troops invade Iran from south and north to forestall any German incursions in the wake of the failed coup by anti-British elements in Iraq that was supported by German special forces flown in from Greece.
	www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1941africa.asp (856 words)

	Australian Mounted Division
		The Australian Mounted Division was formed in Egypt as the Imperial Mounted Division in February 1917 from the 3rd Light Horse Brigade of the Anzac Mounted Division, the 4th Light Horse Brigade, reconstituted after having been broken up the year before, and two British mounted brigades.
		As a result, the division was renamed the Australian Mounted Division on 20 June 1917 and became an Australian unit.
		6th Division NZ and Australian Division Anzac Mounted Division
	www.unsw.adfa.edu.au /~rmallett/Australian_Mounted_Division.html (537 words)

	Papuan Campaign: Part II- Sanananda
		The Australian 25th Brigade moved against Gona on the west; the 16th Brigade attacked along the Soputa-Sanananda Road; the 3d Battalion, 126th Infantry, attacked on both flanks of the 16th Brigade to envelop the enemy.
		The regiment was attached to the Australian 7th Division and assigned to the road-block positions.
		Hustled to Australian 7th Division Headquarters for interrogation, the prisoner revealed that orders had been received on the night of the 12th-13th for able-bodied troops to evacuate "P," the southernmost Japanese position, leaving behind the sick and wounded.
	www.army.mil /CMH-PG/books/wwii/papuancamp/papcpn-part2.htm (4484 words)

	Chapter VI: ARMY DEPLOYMENT AND THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN
		The 7th Armoured Brigade was to proceed to Java; with the agreement of the Australian Government, the 7th Australian Division was to proceed to Sumatra and the 6th to Java.
		Authorities in Washington and London both urged that the Australian Government should consent to the temporary diversion to Burma of the 7th Australian Division, on the understanding that the 6th and 9th Divisions would be returned to Australia.
		The unwillingness of the Australian Government to divert the 7th Australian Division to Burma, the Battle of Sittang Bridge, and, thereafter, the insistence in turn of General Wavell and of the War Department on continued support of Java, cut the ground out from under this plan.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/Sp1941-42/chapter6.htm (9092 words)

	18 Brigade 2nd AIF
		The 18th Brigade was formed in October 1939, one of the first three infantry brigades of the Second AIF, and became part of the 6th Australian Division.
		This resulted in the reduction of Australian infantry brigades from four to three battalions; shipping arrangements meant that the 2/11th Battalion subsequently became part of the 19th Brigade.
		In the United Kingdom, the 18th Brigade provided a nucleus for a new brigade, the 25th, and both subsequently formed the basis of the 9th Division when it was raised in October 1940.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww2/units/brigade18.htm (314 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		The Indian division was therefore withdrawn from the Western Desert Force on December 14, and replaced immediately by the Australian 6th Division, but the exchange caused a delay in the resumption of the offensive.
		This plan required the 7th Armored Division to make a desert march to Bedafomm near the coast with a view to getting behind and cutting off the remaining Italian troops, while the Australian 6th Division was to advance on Benghazi by the coastal route.
		This force, which was much less experienced than the Australian 6th Division and the 7th Armored Division which it had replaced, was under the command of Lt. Gen.
	www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_8.html (12575 words)

	Byung Mook Chang - Korea-Japanese Army 20th Division
		I was a soldier in the 20th Division of Korea-Japan United Army.
		I was forcefully recruited in Seoul and was sent to eastern New Guinea, and for three years was without anything to eat, without any necessary equipment, suffering from malaria and with so many war wounds to travel through the deep jungle.
		The desperate Japanese Army with three divisions was finally ordered to launch an attack on the Australian 6th Division and American 32nd Division in Hollanida and Aitape area.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /people/veterans/chang.html (1307 words)

	Corowa 2001
		The Australian Waffen SS "LSSAH" attended a Military vehicles event that took place at the Victorian-New South Wales border town of Corowa.
		Division AIF provided vehicle owners and public in general an insight into World War Two Re-enacting.
		The Waffen SS would also like to thank Mr John Hedges (NSW) for letting us capture his Blitz Truck and Mr David and Mrs Maggie Mottram (Vic) for also letting us capture their Chevrolet Truck.
	www.geocities.com /waffenss_sydney/corowa.html (170 words)

	Operation Compass & Wavell's 30,000 SPECIAL EDITION of Critical Hit Magazine
		While the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions of 16th Australian Brigade were fanning out in a large arc east and northeastward, 5th, 7th, and 6th Battalions of Savige’s 17th Australian Brigade attacked the southwestern and southern parts of the perimeter.
		After the withdrawal of two brigades of 4th Indian Division and until the 6th Australian Division could be properly equipped and moved forward, the British were left short of infantry.
		The perimeter was held by the 2nd Blackshirt (23rd of March) Division in the north, the 1st Blackshirt (28th of October) Division in the west, the 62nd Marmarica Infantry Division in the southwest, and by part of the 63rd Cyrene Division in the south.
	www.criticalhit.com /BedaFomm.html (4862 words)

	General Sir Archibald Wavell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The 6th Australian Division captured Benghazi on 6 February and the Allies controlled Cyrenaica.
		In February Wavell had had to send a large part of his troops to Greece and kept one infantry division and one armoured division to protect Cyrenaica.
		This was a risk because his forces were not well-equipped and when General Rommel's Afrika Korps arrived in North Africa they could outmaneuver the British.
	expage.com /page/wwiigen78 (358 words)

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