In the Footsteps of Ghosts: With the 29th Battalion in the African Desert and the Jungles of the PacificThe soldiers of thge Australian 2/9th Battalion participated in a succession of battles from Giarabub and Tobruk in North Africa to Milne Bay, Buna, Sanananda, Shaggy Ridge and Balikpapan in the Pacific. |
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| 13 | |
A change of face | 34 |
Maps and illustrations | 35 |
Like rats in a trap | 47 |
Tobruk | 50 |
Tobruk 34 May 1941 | 61 |
Sandshoes at midnight | 75 |
The buggers gone | 145 |
Sanananda | 146 |
The Junction Attack 29th and 212th Battalions | 153 |
Away in the highlands | 164 |
Shaggy Ridge | 173 |
And I was glad | 194 |
Balikpapan | 198 |
On the vigil feast | 215 |
Turning the tide | 90 |
Milne Force dispositions 31 August 1942 | 101 |
A day we will remember | 114 |
To the beachhead | 115 |
Buna | 123 |
Bibliography | 226 |
29th Battalion | 229 |
List of casualties 29th Battalion 193945 | 255 |
Index | 257 |
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
18th Brigade 2/9th Battalion able action advance aircraft American army arrived artillery attack Australian battle beach became Brigade Buna camp Cape Captain carried casualties caused cleared close coast command Company continued Creek crossing December defences Division east enemy fighting fire forces forward front further German Giarabub given going ground guns heavy hospital infantry Italian January Japanese Japs killed landing later leave Lieutenant looked maps March miles Milne Bay moved never night officers operation ordered patrol platoon Point Port positions reached received remained returned River road Sanananda Shaggy Ridge short Smith soldier soon Strip swamp taken tanks task thought Tobruk took track troops turned unit vehicles walk wounded yards
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Sivu 224 - To-morrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day." Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in...
Sivu 65 - The Australians, who are the men our troops have had opposite them so far, are extraordinarily tough fighters. The German is more active in the attack but the enemy stakes his life in the defence and fights to the last with extreme cunning. Our men, usually...
Sivu 65 - Enemy snipers achieve astounding results. They shoot at anything they recognize. Several NCOs of the battalion have been shot through the head with the first bullet while making observations in the front line. Protruding sights in gun directors have been shot off, observation slits and loopholes have been fired on, and hit, as soon as they were seen to be in use (ie when the light background became dark).
Sivu 65 - ... fighters. The German is more active in the attack but the enemy stakes his life in the defence and fights to the last with extreme cunning. Our men, usually easy going and unsuspecting, fall easily into his traps especially as a result of their experiences in the closing stages of the Western Campaign (campaign in France).
Sivu 65 - In using every means of taking us by surprise. Enemy snipers achieve astounding results. They shoot at anything they recognize. Several NCOs of the battalion have been shot through the head with the first bullet while making observations in the front line. Protruding sights in gun directors have been shot off, observation slits and loopholes have been fired on, and hit, as soon as they were seen to be in use (ie when the light background became dark). For this reason loopholes must be kept plugged...
Sivu 73 - Samson asked who they were, where they had come from, and where they were going.
Sivu 65 - German soldier: i. in the use of individual weapons, especially as snipers ii. in the use of ground camouflage iii. in his gift of observation, and the drawing of the correct conclusions from his observation iv. in every means of taking us by surprise . . . The enemy allows isolated individuals to come right up to his positions, then fires on them.
Sivu 79 - Repulse and the Prince of Wales off the coast of Malaya that day.
Sivu 21 - We were chauffeured everywhere, going to a fair in the night at the racecourse and overstaying our leave. But we managed to get a ride out to the Stratheden on a native boat. We waited until a sling full of cargo was leaving the loading barge, then grabbed the net and made our journey up in the air and down into the hold.
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| Otsikko | In the Footsteps of Ghosts: With the 29th Battalion in the African Desert and the Jungles of the Pacific |
| Kirjoittaja | W. B. Spencer |
| Painos | kuvitettu |
| Kustantaja | Allen & Unwin, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1865081450, 9781865081458 |
| Pituus | 262 sivua |
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