Australia's Involvement in World war 2

By joshcm6

  • Australian troops capture Bardia, Libya, from the Italians

    Bardia was the first fight that the Australians had. January 1941 the 6th division attacked the western face of the defensive perimeter. they have successful took Bardia but the Italian dint want it give up, soon enough they gave it. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E222

  • 9th Division returns to Australia

    the 9th division was part of the battle of El Alamein. the Australians attacked the northern flank. they have successfully taken over and given the allies high ground, they suffer high damage and had a variation of attacks from the enemy.

  • Siege of Tobruk

    Tobruk is a town in Egypt, the allies need to defend it as it was a passage for the german and italy’s way of transporting military weapons to other lands. The 9th division had 14,000 mans in the field, the Australia Navy provided 8 battle ships and 21 other smaller ships. March - December 941 killed, 2,177 killed, 941 as prisoners.

  • HMAS Sydney sunk in Indian Ocean

    the HMAS Sydney was following the German raider HSK Kormoran in the Indian ocean. The HMAS was a light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy, the ship had an impressive war service and.

  • Australia declares war on Japan

    Japan had been taken overall of the Asia continent such as the pearl harbor, Thailand, Malaya, Philippines, Hawaii and others. The Australian thought that they were under attacked by the Japanese.this was the first time that Australia was on a war with.

  • Japanese Bomb Darwin

    Darwin had a lot a bombing from the Japanese. overall there was 64 raid bombing in Darwin. the bombing took 2 years and the Japanese couldn't take it.

  • Sandakan, Death Marches

    Japanese has taken over Sandakan, they built a POW Camp. The Australian and the British troops were held in the camp and others as well. The Japanese treated their prisoners horribly, even Hitler said you're treating them like trash. The condition in the camp became terrible and couldn't provide food to the prisoners. people died of starvation and cannibalism. the Japanese had the prisoners wa

  • Australians Defeat Japanese landings at Milne Bay

    the 7th and the 18th of the Australian troops , the allies had a great advantage since they had more air force. the japanese did not take the base Milne Bay, after the defeat they retreated on the 7th September. 2800 japanese man and 1 320 lost https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E345/

  • Australians capture Brunei

    The 9th division was part of the attack. 30,000 Australians took part in it. the allies bought time for the Australian to advance to the northern and capturing it.

  • The Japanese Surrender.

    the japanese have surrender because of the mass muder of the atomic bomb which the japanese have seen and didn't have the tools to built does and it killed a lot a citiven