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Action between HMAS Sydney II and HSK Kormoran, 19 November 1941
Battle
On the afternoon of 19 November 1941 the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran (Commander Theodor Detmers) was steaming on a northeasterly course off the coast of Western Australia, approximately 150 mile...E84305
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Adriatic operations
Operation
The Adriatic Sea, separating Italy and Austria-Hungary, was the site of a prolonged and indecisive naval campaign between the two nations during the First World War. It was a campaign characterised b...E84742
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Aitape-Wewak Campaign
Campaign
The Australian portion of the Aitape-Wewak campaign took place in northern New Guinea between November 1944 and August 1945. Aitape had been occupied by the Japanese in 1942. Recaptured by an American...E84658
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Amiens Raid
Raid
Codenamed Operation Jericho, the air raid on the Amiens prison on 18 February 1944 was mounted to free French resistance fighters prior to the invasion of Normandy. The raid was planned and executed b...E84823
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ANZAC (beachhead)
Invasion
This acronym formed from the first letters of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps also evolved as a location or place name in its own right. As a shortened version of ANZAC Cove, the name define...E84715
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Armistice of 11 November 1918
Agreement
The Armistice of Compiègne was the armistice between the Allies and Germany that ended the fighting on the Western Front in the First World War. The armistice went into effect at 11 a.m. Paris time on...E84281
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Article XV Squadrons
Agreement
Article XV of the Riverdale Agreement that implemented the Empire Training Scheme (EATS) on 17 December 1939 made provision for the formation of distinct dominion squadrons within the Royal Air Force'...E84282
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Attack at Anvil Wood
Attack
Anvil Wood was a small wood to the north of Peronne that marked the centreline of an attack by the 14th Brigade on the morning of 1 September 1918. The northern approaches to Peronne were covered by n...E84285
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Attack at Chipilly
Attack
On the 9th August, British troops were to attack Chipilly, near the Somme, at 5:50 pm Brigadier General Mackay of the 1st Brigade requested that an Australian patrol from the 1st Battalion be sent acr...E84286
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Attack on Beersheba
Attack
Beersheba, a heavily fortified town 43 km from the Turkish bastion of Gaza, was the scene of an historic charge by the 4th Light Horse Brigade on 31 October 1917. Beersheba anchored the right end of a...E84287
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Attack on Hill 971
Attack
Hill 971 (or Koja Chemen Tepe), the highest point of the Sari Bair Ridge, Gallipoli, was the objective of the 4th Infantry Brigade as part of the main break-out operations, from ANZAC in early August ...E84289
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Attack on Hill 60
Attack
The fighting for Hill 60 (a low rise in the foothills on the north-western end of ANZAC) together with supporting offensive against the W Hills represented the last major Allied offensive operation on...E84288
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Attack on Noreuil
Attack
In late February of 1917, the German Army in northern France retreated to the Hindenburg Line in order to shorten its line and thereby establish a more defensible position. British and dominion troops...E84290
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Attacks on Dernancourt
Attack
Dernancourt, a village on the River Ancre in France, was the scene of much desperate fighting during the German offensive of March and April 1918. The 12th and 13th Brigades first occupied positions a...E84291
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August Offensive
Offensive
The August Offensive was the last major attempt made by the Allied forces at Gallipoli to break the stalemate that had persisted since the landings on 25 April 1915. The plan involved a series of thru...E84736
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Balibo Five
Event
The five Australia-based newsmen died during the invasion of the border town of Balibo by the Indonesian army, but the details of precisely how or why they died are still not publicly known. Balibo wa...E84706
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Battle for Mouquet Farm
Battle
Following the capture of Pozières and the German lines at the windmill east of the village in late July and early August 1916, the three Australian divisions of I Anzac Corps attacked northwards along...E84306
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Battle for Retimo
Battle
Retimo is a town on the north coast of the island of Crete, located between the island's major population centres of Canea in the west, and Heraklion in the centre of the north coast. In May 1941 it ...E84307
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Battle for Singapore
Battle
During the Second World War, Singapore was the site of one of the British Commonwealth's greatest military defeats. Britain had built a large naval dockyard on the north coast of the island during the...E84308
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Battle of Amiens
Battle
The Battle of Amiens was the crucial Allied breakthrough counter-offensive, launched on the Western Front around Amiens, in the Somme sector. An "all arms battle", the Allies made effective use of inf...E84310
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Battle of Bardia
Battle
Bardia is a small town on the Mediterranean coast of Libya, in the region of Cyrenaica, approximately 30 kilometres from the Egyptian border. During the early decades of the 20th century it was develo...E84311
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Battle of Berlin
Battle
The battle of Berlin was the third "air offensive" launched by Bomber Command in 1943. It followed those mounted against the Ruhr (March - July) and Hamburg (July - August). It consisted of a series o...E84312
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Battle of Brisbane
Riot
Believed to be started when Australian soldiers came to the aid of an American soldier being harassed by US military police. The incident involved several thousand Australians - 1 was killed and at l...E84830
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Battle of Broodseinde Ridge
Battle
The battle of Broodseinde Ridge was the third operation launched by British general Herbert Plummer as part of the Ypres offensive of 1917. It was a large operation, involving twelve divisions, includ...E84313
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Battle of Buna
Battle
Buna, a village on the coastal plain of northern Papua, was the main base for the Japanese advance along the Kokoda Trail. The first Japanese landings in the area occurred at Gona, east of Buna, on 21...E84314
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Battle of Cambrai
Battle
The Battle of Cambrai, fought between 20 November and 7 December 1917, was the first battle in history involving the employment of tanks en masse. After a series of failures, largely due to the impass...E84316
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Battle of Coronel
Naval battle
The battle of Coronel took place between ships of the German East Asia Squadron under Vice Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee and the British South Atlantic Squadron under Admiral Sir Christopher Cradoc...E84732
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Battle of Damour
Battle
The battle of Damour was the final major operation of the Australian campaign in Syria and Lebanon. Damour is a large town on the Lebanon coast of approximately 30 kilometres south of Beirut, which in...E84318
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Battle of Dunkirk
Battle
The Battle of Dunkirk was a battle in World War II between the Allies and Germany. A part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British ...E84319
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Battle of Flers
Battle
The village of Flers, in the Somme valley in France, gave its name to a series of attacks launched by 1 ANZAC in November 1916. By this time the Somme battlefield had been deluged with rain and the a...E84320
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Battle of Fromelles
Battle
Fromelles was the first major battle fought by Australian troops on the Western Front. Directed against a strong German position known as the Sugar Loaf salient, the attack was intended primarily as a...E84321
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Battle of Gorari
Battle
Gorari was a small village on the Kokoda Trail that stood at the point where a smaller north-south track joined the trail, which at that point ran roughly east-west. Gorari was approximately 6.5 km ea...E84322
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Battle of Hamel
Battle
Well-planned successful limited Allied action on the Western Front, 4 July 1918. Designed to straighten the Allied line the battle was notable for the careful co-ordination of infantry, artillery, arm...E84323
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Battle of Isurava
Battle
The village of Isurava was the site of one of several desperate battles fought by Australian troops during their retreat along the Kokoda Trail. Their position at Deniki becoming untenable, the 39th B...E84324
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Battle of Jutland
Battle
Fought in the North Sea off the Danish coast on 31 May 1916, the battle of Jutland was the biggest naval engagement of the First World War and was the only direct confrontation between the British Gra...E84325
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Battle of Lagnicourt
Battle
Lagnicourt, in northern France, was the scene of fierce fighting in March and April 1917. When the Germans withdrew to the Hindenburg Line in March and the British and dominion forces advanced rapidly...E84326
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Battle of Lone Pine
Attack
One of the most famous assaults of the Gallipoli campaign, the Battle of Lone Pine was originally intended as a diversion from attempts by New Zealand and Australian units to force a breakout from the...E84292
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Battle of Long Tan
Battle
The Battle of Long Tân (18 August 1966) was fought between the Australian Army and Viet Cong forces in a rubber plantation near the village of Long Tân, about 27 kilometres (17 mi) north east of Vung ...E84327
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Battle of Magdhaba
Battle
Magdhaba, a village located in the northern Sinai desert, was the scene of an action fought on 23 December 1916 when Turkish forces blocking the route to Palestine were attacked by Major General Harry...E84328
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Battle of Manggar Airfield
Battle
Manggar airfield, on the eastern coast of Dutch Borneo, approximately 18 kilometres north east of Balikpapan, was the scene of the 2/14th Battalion's last major engagement of the Second World War. Man...E84329
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Battle of Megiddo
Battle
The ancient fortress of Megiddo appears in the New Testament as Armageddon, the location of the millennial battle between the forces of good and evil. The battle of Megiddo was the name given to the ...E84330
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Battle of Menin Road
Battle
The Battle of Menin Road was an offensive operation, part of the Third Battle of Ypres on the Western Front, undertaken by the British Second Army in an attempt to take sections of the curving ridge, ...E84331
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Battle of Messines
Battle
Successful British assault on the Messines-Wytschaete Ridge, a strongly held strategic position on the Western Front, which had been held by the Germans since late 1914. The offensive operation was th...E84332
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Battle of Midway
Battle
The battle of Midway was a decisive Allied naval victory and a major turning point in the Second World War. The battle was fought between Japanese and American carrier forces near the Midway Atoll, a ...E84333
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Battle of Milne Bay
Battle
Offering a sheltered harbour, Milne Bay, on the south-eastern tip of Papua was selected for development as an Allied base - the key component of which was three airstrips - in 1942. These facilities a...E84334
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Battle of Montbrehain
Battle
The last action involving Australian infantry on the Western Front in the First World War. Following the breaking of the Hindenburg Line, the attack on Montbrehain on 5 October 1918 represented an att...E84335
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Battle of 42nd Street
Battle
In the wake of the conquest of Greece, German forces planned to capture the island of Crete as an air base commanding the eastern Mediterranean. The Germans needed to capture a port or (given British ...E84309
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Battle of Poelcappelle
Battle
Also called the first battle of Passchendaele, the battle of Poelcappelle was launched on 9 October with the ridge upon which Passchendaele stood as its objective. Like earlier battles in the Ypres of...E84336
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Battle of Polygon Wood
Battle
The battle of Polygon Wood was the I ANZAC component of a larger British and dominion operation staged as part of the third battle of Ypres. This operation was the second of the "Plumer battles", a se...E84337
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Battle of Pozieres
Battle
Pozieres, a small village in the Somme valley in France, was the scene of bitter and costly fighting for the 1st, 2nd and 4th Australian Divisions in mid 1916. The village was captured initially by t...E84338
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Battle of Romani
Battle
The battle of Romani, fought between 3 and 5 August 1916, finally put a stop to the Turkish threat to the Suez canal and marked the beginning of the British forces' drive out of Egypt and into Palesti...E84339
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Battle of Suoi Bong Trang
Battle
The Battle of Suoi Bong Trang (23-24 February 1966) was a major action during the Vietnam War fought between US and Australian troops, and the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. The battle occurred ...E84340
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Battle of Templeton's Crossing
Battle
Templeton's Crossing was the name given to the first point where the Kokoda Trail, outward bound from Port Moresby, crossed Eora Creek. It was named in remembrance of Captain Sam Templeton of the 39th...E84341
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Battle of the Ruhr
Battle
The battle of the Ruhr was one of three major bombing offensives launched by the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command in 1943-44. Its targets were the cities and towns of the Ruhr Valley, Germany's indust...E84344
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Battle of Vevi (Veve)
Battle
Vevi (Veve), approximately 16 kilometres south of the Yugoslav border in northern Greece, was the site of the first engagement between Australian and German troops in the Greek campaign. Vevi stands a...E84342
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Battle of Villers Bretonneux
Battle
As part of the German Spring Offensive on the Western Front German forces using infantry and tanks captured Villers-Bretonneux (near Amiens) from exhausted British defenders on 24 April 1918. The Aus...E84343
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Battles for Tobruk
Siege
Tobruk, a small town on the Libyan coast, was central to much of the fighting that took place in the Western Desert during the Second World War. It had originally been developed by the Italians during...E84833
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Battles of El Alamein
Battle
El Alamein is a small town on the Egyptian coast, approximately 95 kilometres west of Alexandria. The town stands at the northern end of a 65-kilometre wide bottleneck created between the sea and the ...E84345
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Battles of Gaza
Battle
The coastal city of Gaza was the heart of the main Turkish defensive position in southern Palestine. Three major battles were launched in 1917 by British and dominion forces to capture Gaza - only the...E84346
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Beaurevoir Line
Attack
The Beaurevoir Line was the last of a series of German defensive lines known collectively by the Allies as the Hindenburg Line. It was approximately eight kilometres to the rear of the main Hindenburg...E84293
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Black Day of the German Army in this war
Remark
This remark is attributed to General Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937) following the unprecedented Allied advance on the 8 August 1918, the first day of the Battle of Amiens. The statement reveals Ludendor...E84828
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Black Sea operations
Operation
Surrounded by Russia to the north and Turkey to the south, the Black Sea was the scene of significant naval action between the two nations throughout much of the First World War. The Russian navy grad...E84743
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Bombing of Darwin
Attack
Darwin, the largest population centre in northern Australia, was considered a vital asset in Australia's defences against an increasingly aggressive Japanese Empire in the 1930s. Its port and airfield...E84294
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Capture of Lae
Battle
Prior to the Second World War, Lae, a small town on the shores of the Huon Gulf in eastern New Guinea, was one of several servicing the rich goldfields further inland. Following the fall of Rabaul in ...E84347
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Capture of Mount Shiburangu
Battle
Mount Shiburangu, approximately 490 metres above sea level, is the highest feature in the Prince Alexander Ranges. In June 1945 the Prince Alexanders were the last significant Japanese bastion in the ...E84348
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Capture of Sidon
Battle
In June 1941, the Lebanese coastal town of Sidon had a population of approximately 12,000 people. It was the largest town that the 21st Australian Brigade, advancing along the coast after crossing the...E84349
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Charge at The Nek
Charge
The Nek was a vitally important position on the northern end of the ANZAC front line and the scene of a tragic attack by the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at dawn on 7 August 1915. It was a narrow bridge of...E84701
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Claret Operations
Operation
"Claret" Operations refers to cross-border operations undertaken by the Commonwealth units into the Indonesian area of Borneo.E84744
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Crete Campaign
Campaign
Crete's position in the centre of the eastern Mediterranean made it a key strategic asset during the Second World War. For the Allies it offered potential as a base for operations in the Balkans, and ...E84659
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Crossing of the Litani River
Battle
The Litani River presented a considerable obstacle to the Australian 21st Brigade as it advanced along the southern Lebanon coast in June 1941. Like many natural obstacles, the Litani had been incorpo...E84350
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Crusader Offensive
Offensive
Operation Crusader was the third attempt made by British and Commonwealth forces during 1941 to relieve the besieged fortress of Tobruk. The previous two operations - Brevity (15-27 May 1941) and Batt...E84737
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D-Day
Operation
In an operation codenamed Neptune, the Allied liberation of Western Europe began with a series of landings on 6 June 1944 - D-Day. The "D" stood for day and resulted from the practice of ordering even...E84745
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Defence of Wau
Battle
At the beginning of the Second World War, Wau, in the Buolo Valley in New Guinea (present-day Papua New Guinea) was a small mining settlement. The Wau area was the scene of a great deal of fighting in...E84351
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East Indies operations
Operation
Australian naval vessels were heavily committed to operations in the waters of the East Indies (around current-day Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines) between 1915 and 1917. Both the Dutch East ...E84746
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Egyptian Uprising 1919
Riot
In early March 1919, demonstrations in Cairo, mainly by students, initiated an outburst of anti-British rioting, which within a few days spread through all the lower provinces and extended to upper Eg...E84831
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Es Salt Raid
Raid
Es Salt, a village in Palestine 23 km west of Amman, was the scene of heavy fighting between 30 April and 3 May 1918. The fighting occurred as part of the second "raid" mounted east of the Jordan Rive...E84824
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Expansion and re-organisation of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in Egypt
Event
Early in 1916 the AIF underwent substantial expansion and re-organisation in Egypt. The 1st Division and 4th Infantry Brigade were split in two and their constituent infantry battalions divided, the r...E84708
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First Amman Raid
Raid
The first "raid" on Amman was mounted between 22 and 30 March 1918 by the British 60th Infantry Division, the ANZAC Mounted Division and the Imperial Camel Brigade with the intention of inflicting cas...E84825
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First Battle for Passchendaele
Battle
As a part of the continuing Third Battle of Ypres on the Western Front, Australian, New Zealand and British troops were involved in an unsuccessful attempt to seize the Passchendaele Ridge from the de...E84353
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First Battle of Bullecourt
Battle
Bullecourt, a village in northern France, was one of several villages to be heavily fortified and incorporated into the defences of the Hindenburg Line in 1917. In March 1917, the German army had wit...E84354
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First Battle of Krithia
Battle
Having landed at Cape Helles on 25 April 2015, the Allies attempted to break through the Turkish defensive line surrounding the beachhead and capture the small village of Krithia as well as the promin...E84355
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First UN Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM I) Op IGUANA: 1992 - 1993
Peacekeeping Operation
Strength: 36 - Movement Control Unit (MovCon) Augmentation: 5 pers - Advance party for HQ UNOSOM II arrive in Mar 1993 Total Pers: 41 (ASC 1 + 1 1/2) AO: Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Djibouti In ...E84793
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Gaza-Beersheba Line
Attack
The Gaza-Beersheba line was the main Turkish defensive position astride the route into Palestine, running from the coastal city of Gaza to Beersheba in the east. The line was admirably suited to defen...E84295
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German East Africa campaign
Campaign
German East Africa, a region including present-day Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania, was the site of the largest and longest campaign waged in Africa during the First World War. The British government fir...E84660
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German Spring Offensive
Attack
This term relates to the three major German attacks on the Western Front in late March, April and May 1918, known collectively as the "Kaiserschlacht" (Kaiser's Battle) offensive. Using troops release...E84296
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Greek Campaign
Campaign
On 5 April 1941 German troops invaded Greece and Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was overrun in a matter of days while the Greek campaign lasted just over three weeks. A British guarantee to support Greece i...E84661