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Siege of Tobruk

Posted: April 9th, 2006, 7:00am PDT

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Between April and August 1941 up to 14,000 Australians, under the command of Lieutenant-General Leslie Morshead were besieged in Tobruk by a German-Italian army commanded by General Erwin Rommel. By the end of the seige in December, Australian casualties were 3,009 killed or wounded and 941 taken prisoner.
Vietnam - 30 years on

Posted: November 10th, 2005, 6:00am PST

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Australian War Memorial Anniversary Orations.
Gallipoli in a Nation's Remembrance

Posted: November 10th, 2004, 6:00am PST

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Australian War Memorial Anniversary Orations.
Bomber Command and 460 Squadron, 15 November 1942

Posted: November 14th, 2002, 6:00am PST

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460 squadron achieved many milestones in Australian military history. It sent more Lancaster on operations and dropped a greater tonnage of bombs than any other squadron in Bomber Command but these milestones were achieved at great cost.
The end of the Kokoda campaign, 1 November 1942

Posted: October 31st, 2002, 6:00am PST

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The village of Kokoda is on the northern side of the Owen Stanley Range and gave its name to one of the epic battles of the war in the Pacific.
The Battle of El Alamein, 23 October 1942

Posted: October 22nd, 2002, 7:00am PDT

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El Alamein was one of the great battles of the Second World War, and is frequently described as a turning-point of that conflict.
Milne Bay, 5 September 1942

Posted: September 4th, 2002, 7:00am PDT

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The Battle of Milne Bay resulted in the first defeat of a Japanese land force in the Second World War.
The loss of HMAS Canberra, 9 August 1942

Posted: August 8th, 2002, 7:00am PDT

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On 9 August 1942 the Australian heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra was lost in action in the Solomon Islands, some eighteen hundred kilometres off the North Queensland coast. Crippled in a short but ferocious engagement with a force of Japanese cruisers in the early hours of the morning, the RAN ship was abandoned and sunk at 8 a.m. by allied vessels before they withdrew from the area.
Ruin Ridge, 26-27 July 1942

Posted: July 25th, 2002, 7:00am PDT

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On the night of the 26-27 July 1942, the 2/28th Battalion lost 65 men dead and 490 captured, in an attack on a place called Ruin Ridge, in Egypt. The attack on Ruin Ridge was to be the final attempt to break through the Axis position at Alamein.
The sinking of Montevideo Maru, 1 July 1942

Posted: June 30th, 2002, 7:00am PDT

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On 1 July 1942 the Montevideo Maru, was sunk off the northern coast of Luzon by an American submarine. 1,050 Australians were lost in the greatest single maritime tragedy in Australia's history.

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Posted: April 9th, 2006, 7:00am PDT

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Posted: November 10th, 2005, 6:00am PST

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Posted: November 10th, 2004, 6:00am PST

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Posted: November 14th, 2002, 6:00am PST

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Posted: October 31st, 2002, 6:00am PST

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Posted: October 22nd, 2002, 7:00am PDT

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Posted: September 4th, 2002, 7:00am PDT

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Posted: August 8th, 2002, 7:00am PDT

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Posted: July 25th, 2002, 7:00am PDT

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Posted: June 30th, 2002, 7:00am PDT

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