I dont think the Aussies were really appreciated for what they did in the Second World War so thats why im making this room for the Aussies.
8/10 of the Australian Army was wiped out from the German and Japanese. (axis)
We lost tens and tens of thousands of young men and women through ww2, aswell as being a new Country and all, i take my hate off to the Veterans.
Yeah the Aussies, Canadians, and South Africans deserve a lot more credit in WWII but most for Australians. Lucky for victory at GuadalCanal or Japanese might have reached the weakened harbor of Sydney O.O
Japans attack on Pearl Harbour bring America into the 2nd world war
The Australian conscripts successfully defending Port Moresby (capital of Papua New Guinea
Australia is only allowed to use her conscripts on Australian territory yet they fought in PNG, u ppl asking why? its cauz back in those days PNG was Australian territory and thats why they were able to fight in PNG protecting the Kokoda Trek and not allowing the Japanese to invade Port Moresby where they were able to use Port Moresby’s air fields to bomb Australia
the bombings did take place, particularly in Broome and Darwin (Broome is a town in northern Western Australia and Darwin is the capital of the Northern Territory)
also 3 midget submarines entered Sydney Harbour but luckily only sunk a ferry with no1 dead
submarines also shelled the Eastern suburbs and shelled Newcastle (city in New South Wales)
Use clear english please, not text-speak. Non-native speakers struggling with the bizarre difficulties this language throws up are more than welcome, but using ‘2’ for ‘to’ and ‘too’ is just idle. If it’s not worth your time to type correctly, then it’s probably not worth typing at all.
Out of more than 724,000 army personnel during World War Two, almost 400,000 served outside Australia. More than 18,000 died; 22,000 were wounded and more than 20,000 became prisoners of war.
So, of those who served outside Australia, 4.5% died. Of the total army personnel, 2.5% died. Total dead/wounded/prisoner for those that served outside Aus is 15% and for total strength is 8.3%
Please please please fact-check yourself before posting things like you did at the top of the thread! Cos we will do it for you if you don’t, and you will look a fool.
My city where i live now is the most isolated place on the planet believe it or not, and if the Japanese had invaded Perth it would of taken days for reinforcements to arrive.