In the Footsteps of Ghosts: With the 2/9th Battalion in the African Desert and the Jungles of the PacificAllen & Unwin, 1999 - 262 sivua The 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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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 8
Sivu 14
... leave for those who had no transport . I was posted to Don Company , which in those days was the Vickers Machine Gun Support Company . The Vickers .303 machine gun was a destructive weapon , requiring a team . to operate it efficiently ...
... leave for those who had no transport . I was posted to Don Company , which in those days was the Vickers Machine Gun Support Company . The Vickers .303 machine gun was a destructive weapon , requiring a team . to operate it efficiently ...
Sivu 15
... leave later in the war . They were a happy lot , and some of them eventually married Australian girls and made Australia their home . ) Soon we were relieved , returned to Woodside and given leave . By this time the ' Universal Trainees ...
... leave later in the war . They were a happy lot , and some of them eventually married Australian girls and made Australia their home . ) Soon we were relieved , returned to Woodside and given leave . By this time the ' Universal Trainees ...
Sivu 16
... Leave was allowed that night , with the proviso that we were back by 7 the next morning . We were not surprised when a few did not turn up the next day . During the afternoon of our second day , transports took us into Adelaide to the ...
... Leave was allowed that night , with the proviso that we were back by 7 the next morning . We were not surprised when a few did not turn up the next day . During the afternoon of our second day , transports took us into Adelaide to the ...
Sivu 17
... Leave was available every night and at weekends , unless you were on guard . If you were in uniform , travel was free on all public transport in Adelaide . We made many lasting friendships at Cheltenham , although some were abruptly ...
... Leave was available every night and at weekends , unless you were on guard . If you were in uniform , travel was free on all public transport in Adelaide . We made many lasting friendships at Cheltenham , although some were abruptly ...
Sivu 20
... Leave . We remained in Fremantle until 27 November , because there was a German raider on the prowl in the Indian Ocean . We were pleased about the leave ( the tragedy of HMAS Sydney was revealed only much later ) . The people of ...
... Leave . We remained in Fremantle until 27 November , because there was a German raider on the prowl in the Indian Ocean . We were pleased about the leave ( the tragedy of HMAS Sydney was revealed only much later ) . The people of ...
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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 |
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18th Brigade 2/9th Battalion 7th Australian Division 7th Division action Adelaide aircraft American ammunition army artillery attack Australian Australian 6th Division Balikpapan barges barrage battle beach became bomb Buna and Sanananda bunkers camp Cape Endaiadere Captain capture casualties coast coconut command Company convoy December defences desert fighting fire forward front German Giarabub Gili Gili grenades Guinea guns harbour hospital infantry Intelligence Section Italian January Japanese Japanese forces Japs jungle killed Killerton Kokoda Trail kunai landing Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Cummings maps McDonald miles Milne Bay mortars moved night officers operation Papua patrol perimeter platoon Port Moresby Queensland RAAF Regiment Riko River Sanananda Senemi Creek Sergeant Shaggy Ridge Smith sniper soldier Strip swamp tanks Tobruk track troops trucks vehicles Vickers 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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