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	World War II Links on the Internet
		They include the Boer War (1899-1903); First World war (1914-1918), Second World war (1939-1945); Korean War (1950-1953) and Vietnam War (1957- 1975).
		World War II Through Russian Eyes from the Historical Achievements Museum, the traveling exhibit of artifacts from the Russian Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow opened August 6, 1998 in the Ronald Reagan Building and Center for International Trade, Washington DC
		World War II Resources from Larry W. Jewell with documents from the Pearl Harbor Working Group and from the former Byrd Archive, including FDR speeches, now at ibiblio
	history.acusd.edu /gen/ww2_links.html

	Deceased New Zealand Vietnam veterans
		The physical number of New Zealanders serving in South Vietnam was also determined using the Flinkenburg nominal role.
		The list is known as the Flinkenburg roll in which some names on the list are repeated within various sub-units because an individual served more than one tour of duty.
		Cancer is noted as a major causation of death among the Vietnam veteran population worldwide.
	nzvietvet.bravepages.com (748 words)

	Vietnam Yesterday & Today: History Websites
		Included on this useful site are documents relating to the U.S. Army in Vietnam, the electronic battlefield, special forces, a history of the NVA, biographies of General Giap, Jane Fonda, Hanoi Hannah, Australian and New Zealand forces in Vietnam, a history of Air America, glossary, and a history of the Medal of Honor.
		This useful history research site utilizes the Conversations with History archive, to study the complex environment in which decisions were made regarding Vietnam and American participation in the war the causes and consequences of U.S. decisions.
		During the Vietnam War, the John Birch Society reported extensively on how American soldiers were prevented from winning the war, how the U.S. government knowingly abandoned thousands of POW/MIAs, and on other issues.
	servercc.oakton.edu /~wittman/histlink.htm (3785 words)

	Military History
		Cavalry's role in the Spanish-American War, written by him as war hero and new Governor of New York, less than 1 year after the war, in 1899.
		You can click on atlases for late 17th-mid 18th century Colonial Wars, the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812, Mexican War, American Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, Wars in Modern China, WWII-European Theater, WWII-Asian Theater, the Korean War, Arab-Isreali Wars, Vietnam War and Wars and Conflicts since 1958.
		Obtained and tabulated from official muster rolls at war's end, it is chiefly arranged alphabetically by state, then by number or letter of units.
	pml.suffolk.lib.ny.us /Pmlmil.htm (3480 words)

	1st Battalion, 5th Marines
		Reactivated 19 January 1942 at New river, North Carolina, the Battalion deployed during June 1942 to Wellington, New Zealand, and participated in the following World War II Campaigns: Guadalcanal; New Guinea; New Britain; Peleliu; and Okinawa.
		The Battaion deployed during March 1966 to the Republic of Vietnam as part of the Special Landing Force, and was redesignated 8 May 1966 as the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force.
		The Battalion reactivated 31 March 1975 at Camp Pendleton, California, and participated during July-December 1975 in Operation New Arrival, the relocation of refugees from Indochina.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/usmc/1-5.htm (667 words)

	GENEoNZ- NZ Armed Forces
		VIETNAM War - Roll of Honour (New Zealand Personnel who gave their all in the Vietnam War) (©Alan Grayling, NZ?) Index of names of NZ personnel killed in action during the Vietnam War.
		The South African War Virtual Library (©1997 Robert Wotton, Univ of Queensland, Aust) Lists divisions of the "Rough Rider's" that represented New Zealand, or "Maoriland", during the Boer War.
		VICTORIA CROSS, New Zealander's who won the (©1994 The Electric Book Co Ltd.) Details of New Zealand Victoria Cross winners who fought in the New Zealand Wars, South African War (Boer War), World War One (The Great War) and World War Two.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Park/7572/nzatwar.htm (1324 words)

	NZ Health Select Committee Agent Orange Enquiry Submission
		New Zealand Minister in Charge of War Pensions says Government will not formally acknowledge service in Vietnam as the only qualification needed to sustain an application for war disablement pension in respect of any form of cancer or any other form of disability.
		The majority of New Zealand military personnel serving in South Vietnam during the 1960's - 1970's war were integrated as sub-units into Australian military forces in Phouc Tuy Province.
		A New Zealand Vietnam veteran suffering certain medical conditions as accepted by Governments of Australia and the United States of America proceed with a war disability pensions claim, and pursue full entitlements to compensation and benefits.
	premierstrategics.com /selectsubmit2003.html (9551 words)

	Vietnam Yesterday & Today: History Websites
		Included on this useful site are documents relating to the U.S. Army in Vietnam, the electronic battlefield, special forces, a history of the NVA, biographies of General Giap, Jane Fonda, Hanoi Hannah, Australian and New Zealand forces in Vietnam, a history of Air America, glossary, and a history of the Medal of Honor.
		This useful history research site utilizes the Conversations with History archive, to study the complex environment in which decisions were made regarding Vietnam and American participation in the war the causes and consequences of U.S. decisions.
		The Vietnam War Internet Project is an educational organization providing information and documents about the various Indochina Wars and to the collection and electronic publication on the web of oral histories and memoirs of both those who served in and those who opposed those conflicts.
	servercc.oakton.edu /~wittman/histlink.htm (3816 words)

	ANZAC Day - a history
		Anzac Day in New Zealand is held on 25 April each year to commemorate New Zealanders killed in war and to honour returned servicemen and women.
		New Zealand soldiers in Egypt commemorated the day with a service and the playing of the Last Post, followed by a holiday, including sports.
		Anzac Day had become more than a commemoration of New Zealand war dead and war service; it was increasingly being used to make statements about war and society.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /Gallery/Anzac/Anzacday.htm (3816 words)

	RSA - About RSA - Archived News Releases
		The New Zealand Defence Force is seeking to locate family members of New Zealanders who lost their lives in post World War II military operations.
		The Royal New Zealand Returned Services' Association was appalled to learn of the desecration of Commonwealth war graves at the St Aubert British Cemetery in northern France.
		A major new television documentary series is being made about the ANZAC experience from the beginning of World War II through to the end of the war in Vietnam - using the colour film footage that started to appear during World War II.
	www.rsa.org.nz /about/news_archive.html (1816 words)

	NZ Health Select Committee Agent Orange Enquiry Submission
		New Zealand Minister in Charge of War Pensions says Government will not formally acknowledge service in Vietnam as the only qualification needed to sustain an application for war disablement pension in respect of any form of cancer or any other form of disability.
		New Zealand government denial, or avoidance acceptance, that there is cause for concern has prevailed for 14 years, in spite of a significant veteran death rate from some of the rarest forms of cancers.
		The statistics for deceased New Zealand Vietnam veterans is 15.3% of a 3256 population.
	nzvietnamvets.freeservers.com /Selectsubmit2003.html (1816 words)

	New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The American influence on New Zealand was weakened by the disappointment with the Vietnam War, the nuclear danger presented by the Cold War, the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by France and by disagreements over environmental and agricultural trade issues.
		However, Britain's inability to protect New Zealand from Japanese aggression in World War II led New Zealand to come under the influence of the United States of America for the generation following the war.
		New Zealand was involved in a Constitutional Convention in March 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, along with the then-colonies of Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_zealand (4264 words)

	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Within Australasia the Anzacs 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.
		Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment operated as part of the 4th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR) which was then referred to as the 4RAR/NZ (Anzac) Battalion.
		At Villers-Bretonneux, in the 1918 First Battles of the Somme, the "Anzac" designation ceased to be used to represent an army corps containing Australian and New Zealand divisions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anzac (4264 words)

	Vietnam Yesterday & Today: History Websites
		Included on this useful site are documents relating to the U.S. Army in Vietnam, the electronic battlefield, special forces, a history of the NVA, biographies of General Giap, Jane Fonda, Hanoi Hannah, Australian and New Zealand forces in Vietnam, a history of Air America, glossary, and a history of the Medal of Honor.
		This essay by noted Vietnam scholar and teacher Edwin E. Moise, provides a valuable starting point for the study of the 1968 Tet Offensive and is part of the author's The Vietnam Wars.
		The Vietnam War Internet Project is an educational organization providing information and documents about the various Indochina Wars and to the collection and electronic publication on the web of oral histories and memoirs of both those who served in and those who opposed those conflicts.
	servercc.oakton.edu /~wittman/histlink.htm (3816 words)

	New_Zealand
		The American influence on New Zealand was weakened by the disappointment with the Vietnam War, the nuclear danger presented by the Cold War, the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by France and by disagreements over environmental and agricultural trade issues.
		However, the United Kingdom's inability to protect New Zealand from Japanese aggression in World War II led New Zealand to come under the influence of the United States of America for the generation following the war.
		New Zealand was involved in a Constitutional Convention in March 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, along with the Australian colonies.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/new_zealand.html (4581 words)

	New Zealand - Psychology Central
		The American influence on New Zealand was weakened by the disappointment with the Vietnam War, the nuclear danger presented by the Cold War, the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by France and by disagreements over environmental and agricultural trade issues.
		However, the United Kingdom's inability to protect New Zealand from Japanese aggression in World War II led New Zealand to come under the influence of the United States of America for the generation following the war.
		New Zealand was involved in a Constitutional Convention in March 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, along with the Australian colonies.
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/New_Zealand (4633 words)

	World History Compass, Australian and New Zealand History
		Pioneers in New Zealand and the South Pacific
		The Sudan, Boer War, Boxer Rebelllion, World War I World War II, Malaya, Korea, Vietnam, Confrontation with Indonesia and The Gulf War.
		Situated in Sydney, the Parliament of New South Wales is the oldest Parliament in Australia.
	www.worldhistorycompass.com /austral.htm (579 words)

	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Vietnam War, two companies from Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment operated as part of the 4th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR) which was then referred to as the 4RAR/NZ (Anzac) Battalion.
		The original formation (the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), which served at Gallipoli, was commanded by General William Birdwood and comprised the Australian 1st Division and the New Zealand and Australian Division.
		The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (popularly abbreviated as ANZAC) was originally an army corps of Australian and New Zealand troops who fought in World War I at Gallipoli, in the Middle East and on the Western Front.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_Army_Corps (695 words)

	The NewsAhead Agency for future world news
		anniversary of the start of the World War I Gallipoli campaign in Turkey, during which thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps were killed while fighting from the wrong beach, will attract thousands more pilgrims than usual for dawn ceremonies at the cove where they landed.
		Dawn wreath-laying ceremonies in the cities and towns of both countries are followed by parades of veterans, war widows, army nurses and others from World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, East Timor and the Gulf War.
		Terror warnings are part of the ANZAC tourist packages to Turkey, and may constrain some of the traditional tours of the coves, trenches and other memorial sites for both sides of the conflict.
	www.newsahead.com /content/view/531/71 (695 words)

	New Zealand chemical company denies Agent Orange claims
		A New Zealand company at the centre of allegations it supplied Agent Orange chemicals during the Vietnam War said Monday the claims were false.
		A government minister was quoted in a weekend newspaper as acknowledging Agent Orange ingredients, produced in New Zealand by chemical company Ivon Watkins Dow (now called Dow AgroSciences), were exported to a US military base in the Philippines during the Vietnam war.
		Initial findings suggested that New Zealand had not breached the Geneva Convention as the article prohibiting the use of Agent Orange was not in force in New Zealand until 1987.
	www.spacewar.com /2005/050110082624.rnbyzp6c.html (754 words)

	NZ Health Select Committee Agent Orange Enquiry Submission
		Identify and examine evidence that New Zealand defence personnel were exposed to Agent Orange and other defoliant chemicals during the Vietnam War, including new evidence that New Zealand defence personnel served in an area identified as defoliated by the United States defence forces.
		New Zealand government denial, or avoidance acceptance, that there is cause for concern has prevailed for 14 years, in spite of a significant veteran death rate from some of the rarest forms of cancers.
		The statistics for deceased New Zealand Vietnam veterans is 15.3% of a 3256 population.
	nzvietnamvets.freeservers.com /Selectsubmit2003.html (754 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia
		The nominal roll of Vietnam veterans was released in 1997, although it should be noted that the value of this work is in its contribution towards the Mortality and Health Studies.
		It has strong representation in every State and Territory, and very close ties with equivalent organisations in the United States and New Zealand.
		At the same time there was a very real feeling that the RSL had not accepted the Vietnam veterans, and nor would it pursue the concerns of this group with the vigour they believed that those concerns warranted.
	www.vvaa.org.au (911 words)

	Articles - December 2
		1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
		1962 - Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
		1939 - New York City's La Guardia Airport opens.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/December_2 (1308 words)

	Telegraph News New Zealand scraps air force warplanes
		The New Zealand army was promised more cash to replace radios and vehicles dating from the Vietnam War era as part of a plan to improve its peacekeeping capability.
		New Zealand forces have an unblemished history of supporting the Western allies through both world wars, as well as in the Korean and Vietnam wars.
		MOST of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is to be scrapped, the government said yesterday, curtailing its traditional role with Australia of helping to guarantee security in the Pacific.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/05/09/wnz09.xml (703 words)

	Royal New Zealand Air Force Association
		The New Zealand Government committed forces to the Vietnam War in 1965.
		Graduates of the BCATP and others who were trained in New Zealand and proceeded direct to the RAF, served with distinction in all theatres of the war.
		During the Pacific Defence Conference at Wellington, April 1939, the British and New Zealand Governments agreed, that in addition to providing personnel for local defence, the RNZAF's role in the event of a European war would be to provide trained aircrew to the RAF under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP).
	rnzaf.homestead.com /hist.html (4230 words)

	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Vietnam War, two companies from the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment operated as part of the 4th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR) which was then referred to as the 4RAR/NZ (Anzac) Battalion.
		The original formation (the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), which served at Gallipoli, was commanded by General William Birdwood and comprised the Australian 1st Division and the New Zealand and Australian Division.
		Within Australasia the Anzacs 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.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Australian_and_New_Zealand_Army_Corps (733 words)

	Encyclopedia: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
		During the Vietnam War, two companies from Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment operated as part of the 4th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR) which was then referred to as the 4RAR/NZ (Anzac) Battalion.
		The original formation (the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), which served at Gallipoli, was commanded by General William Birdwood and comprised the Australian 1st Division and the New Zealand and Australian Division.
		Within Australasia the Anzacs 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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Australian-and-New-Zealand-Army-Corps (2354 words)

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