Showing 2 items matching "australia -- armed forces -- japan -- history"
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Returned Nurses RSL Sub-branchBook - Hardcover illustrated book, Keith Howes, BCOF Pictorial: a pictorial history of Australians who served in the armed forces with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan. 1945-1952, 1999
... Australia -- Armed Forces -- Japan -- History...Australia -- Armed Forces -- Japan -- History Japan -- History -- Allied occupation 1945-1952 HMAS Manunda 130 AGH A pictorial history of Australians who served in the armed forces with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, 1945-1952, including a chapter on the 130 Australian General Hospital (AGH) and HMAS Manunda and a list of the Nursing Officers and staff. ...A pictorial history of Australians who served in the armed forces with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, 1945-1952, including a chapter on the 130 Australian General Hospital (AGH) and HMAS Manunda and a list of the Nursing Officers and staff.Green hardback cover with title and author printed in gold text along the spine and in the centre of the front cover.non-fictionA pictorial history of Australians who served in the armed forces with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, 1945-1952, including a chapter on the 130 Australian General Hospital (AGH) and HMAS Manunda and a list of the Nursing Officers and staff. british commonwealth occupation forces., australia -- armed forces -- japan -- history, japan -- history -- allied occupation, 1945-1952, hmas manunda, 130 agh -
Monbulk RSL Sub BranchBook, Allan and Unwin, The strength of a nation: Six years of Australians fighting for the nation and defending the homefront in WWII, 2008
... Military history of Australia in World War Two Australia - Politics and government - 1939-1945 Nearly one million Australians out of a total population of just seven million people joined the armed forces in World War II. They made an enormous contribution to the allied war effort; they inflicted the first land defeat of the Japanese ...Nearly one million Australians out of a total population of just seven million people joined the armed forces in World War II. They made an enormous contribution to the allied war effort; they inflicted the first land defeat of the Japanese at Milne Bay in New Guinea during that war and played a crucial part in the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, the first defeat on land of the Germans. These victories in battle were only made possible by their support from home. Still recovering from the First World War and the Great Depression the Australian population rallied to make these achievements possible. This is the story of Australia and Australians at war at home and abroad in the six years, 1939 to 1945Index, ill, p.485.Nearly one million Australians out of a total population of just seven million people joined the armed forces in World War II. They made an enormous contribution to the allied war effort; they inflicted the first land defeat of the Japanese at Milne Bay in New Guinea during that war and played a crucial part in the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, the first defeat on land of the Germans. These victories in battle were only made possible by their support from home. Still recovering from the First World War and the Great Depression the Australian population rallied to make these achievements possible. This is the story of Australia and Australians at war at home and abroad in the six years, 1939 to 1945military history of australia in world war two, australia - politics and government - 1939-1945
