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Old 01-03-2008, 10:31 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Aust order of Battle - Milne Bay 1942

Can anyone please provide the Aust order of battle for Milne Bay August 1942? Thanks in advance
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Old 01-03-2008, 11:21 PM   #2 (permalink)
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This gives a general overview of the units present:

Battle for Australia Council

55th Australian Infantry Battalion
7th Australian Infantry Brigade Group, made up of the 9th, 25th, 61st Battalions plus anti-tank and anti-aircraft artillery

However, it's not a specidic OoB
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Old 02-03-2008, 01:41 AM   #3 (permalink)
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MILNE BAY-AUGUST, SEPTEMBER 1942

AIF & Militia
    • 'Milne Force'
    • 7th Brigade (9th, 25th, 61st Battalions)
    • 18th Brigade (2/9th, 2/10th, 2/12th Battalions)
    • 2/5th Field Regiment
    • 4th Battery, 101st Anti-Tank Regiment
    • 6th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
    • 9th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery
    • 24th Field Company
  • RAAF
    • No.6 Squadron (Hudsons)
    • No.32 Squadron (Hudsons)
    • NO.75 Squadron (Kittyhawks)
    • No.76 Squadron (Kittyhawks)
    • Detachment of No.30 Squadron (Beaufighters)
    • Detachment of No.100 Squadron (Beauforts)
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"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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Old 02-03-2008, 01:49 AM   #4 (permalink)
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A look at the Milne Bay operation.

http://www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/his...hapters/05.pdf
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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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Old 02-03-2008, 03:17 AM   #5 (permalink)
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These American units were also at Milne Bay.

Australian and United States forces had been active in the area since June. The 46th United States Engineer Battalion were joined by II/43rd US Engineer Regiment.
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"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:
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Old 02-03-2008, 03:29 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Forgot I had these.

Pages 5 & 6 should be interesting for you.

http://www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm...1-5-25-001.pdf
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"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:
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Old 02-03-2008, 07:39 AM   #7 (permalink)
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thanks for the responses Kyt and spidge
My research has the 33rd Heavy AA battery arriving in milne bay on the MV Anshun. They had departed Townsville in convoy Q2 on Wednesday 2nd September arriving Giligili Plantation Saturday 5th September 1942. Q2 consisted of Anshun and S'Jacob escorted by HMAS Swan and HMAS Castlemaine. Q2 had left Townsville together with convey P2 comprising Sea Witch and Tarooma. On September 4 Q2 and P2 and escorts met up with HMAS Arunta. The two convoys split 180 miles south of Port Moresby, P2 and HMAS Castlemaine went to Port Moresby and Q2 and the other two escorts went on to Milne Bay. A Japanese submarine was sunk by HMAS castlemaine as it approached Port Moresby?
HMAS Anshun was sunk by and a Japanese cruiser Tenryu and destroyer Arashi that came to Milne Bay to bombard allied shipping and defenses. Following orders the escorts had left Milne Bay and returned the next morning. The S'Jacob was sunk when it left Milne Bay.
I will digest what you have posted and get back
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No mention of the submarine here, Adam:

world war 2 picture ship navy australian hmas castlemaine
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Old 04-03-2008, 06:26 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Yes Andy, sorry, my mistake. It was the HMAS Arunta.....

HMAS ARUNTA (I) - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia) - "On 11 August 1942 ARUNTA began escorting convoys and other shipping between Australia and New Guinea. On 29 August she experienced her first contact with the enemy when she destroyed by depth charge the Japanese Submarine RO33 off Port Moresby. In September she continued escorting convoys to New Guinea and while thus engaged took on board the survivors of the SS ANSHUN at Milne Bay after that ship had been sunk by Japanese cruisers on the night of 6/7 September."

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No worries, Adam, I'm sadly not up enough on the naval (or any) side of things of that period so I couldn't offer another option. Really need to get my head around the chronology.

Good old Arunta!

Btw, how cool is it that Castlemaine still survives?!
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