Also known as: Second World War, WWII Written by Thomas A. Hughes Dr. Thomas Alexander Hughes (BA, Saint John’s University; MA, PhD, University of Houston) is an associate professor at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He formerly served... ...
During WWII, the island came under attack from the Japanese who wanted to disrupt shipments of phosphate. In 1948, the Australian and New Zealand Governments purchased the Christmas Island Phosphate Company which they worked in partnership with the British Phosphate Commissioners. Due to dwindling rese...
Australia was at no great risk of attack until the Japanese entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941. In April of 1942 the 3rd Corps was formed with the specific job of defending W.A. in case of an attack by the Japanese. The Corps consisted of an armo...
Australia has tended to follow the American lead in these episodes, but Australia is grown up now. Global events and American hegemony forced a separation from American policies. That started under George W. Bush when he responded to the World Trade Center attack the same way Donald Trump is ...
The Penang War Museum does not sugarcoat the violence and war time atrocities that took place on this isolated hill. A raw look into the history of the WWII Bukit Maung fortress turned Japanese army base is but one example of a larger theme of Malaysia – Malaysia doesn’t sugarcoat anything...
Australia was at no great risk of attack until the Japanese entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941. In April of 1942 the 3rd Corps was formed with the specific job of defending W.A. in case of an attack by the Japanese. The Corps consisted of an armo...