Amid the larger fight against Japan in the Pacific, U.S. and Australian troops stationed in Brisbane clashed violently during ...

Military conscription in Australia had been abandoned in 1959 but was reintroduced in 1964 to support the war effort in Vietnam. Controversially, this call-up of 20-year-old men now included the ...

Yet despite regular echoes of “Lest We Forget” on Anzac Day, the views of soldiers and veterans who disagree with Australia’s involvement in wars, both past and present, are rarely heard.

25 April 1915: On the first anniversary of Australian troops landing at Gallipoli in Turkey, Anzac Day was observed around Australia and wherever Australian soldiers were posted ... Australians who ...

Hundreds of villagers and relatives of the fallen watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers who died in one of the last large World War II battles fighting for Adolf ...

Surely we can learn – and he can learn – from the crisis Australia faced in World War II. That crisis ... the experienced head of our army, decided that Singapore was not in danger of a ...

Geraldton and its surrounds were a key defence location during World War II ... Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. "Publicly you'll see ships and soldiers ...

SANDAKAN: Located near the site of a World War II prisoner­-of-war camp ... which revolves around the sacrifices of Australian soldiers. Sandakan MP Vivian Wong Shir Yee said the original ...