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04-03-2008, 10:33 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | An American said to me once that their forces were also instrumental in the victory at Milne Bay and we wanted to take all the glory ourselves. "We had troops there too"! They did, however they were not front line troops. They were an engineer battalion constructing the three airfields. One was killed by action, the other three due to an Air Raid. Even Macarthur couldn't claim this an American victory however he reported it as an "Allied" victory.
__________________ 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 |
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16-03-2008, 03:59 AM
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You're Top Poster: #77 | milne bay Thank you Spidge for the pdf files which I am assuming is the war diary of Milne Force. There are quite a few references to the AA units and the days around late August seem especially busy. The light and heavy anti-aircraft units claim quite a few destroyed aircraft and notes of near misses are included. I see on page 5 the only reference to the 33rd HAA that I could find noting that it is the HQ company. Would this be the scenario, that a HQ company could be deployed and other HAA units in the force would be attached to that HQ? I note there are 2nd AIF HAA units as well as some American AA. How would those units go coming under command of a militia unit or any idea how the command structure would go? What about the LAA? Thanks again Adam |
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19-03-2008, 05:36 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Adam, Spidge is currently in Perth but will be back home tomorrow so should be able to answer your question then.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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