| Welcome Liam,
The silent 7th exploits were "blacked out" as they were fighting of the Vichy French was not politically palatable. They played a back seat to the 9th division.
The 6th division put the Italians out of business, the 9th imposed the first land defeat on Germany at Tobruk, the 7th were first to beat the Vichy French. At Milne Bay, the Australians were first to defeat the Japanese after they had made a beachhead.
A impressive record for the Colonials.
__________________ Spidge,
------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |