Term used to describe battles that took place near Australia during WWII
Battle for Australia
Part of Second World War during the Pacific War
An Australian propaganda poster released in 1942. The poster was criticised for being alarmist when it was released and was banned by the Queensland government.
Date
19 February 1942 - 2 September 1945
Location
Coral Sea, New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Australia
Result
Allied victory
End of attacks following the capitulation of Japan
Belligerents
Allied Powers
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
Norway
Netherlands
Axis Powers
Japan
Germany
Commanders and leaders
John Curtin Joseph Burnett David V. J. Blake John Crace
Gerald Muirhead Godd
Chūichi Nagumo Mitsuo Fuchida Kanji Matsumura Sakonjo Naomasa Sasaki Hankyu Robert Yesen
Theodor Detmers
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e
Axis naval attacks against Australia
German surface raiders
Nauru
HMAS Sydney–Kormoran
Darwin
Sydney
Newcastle
Dureenbee
Port Gregory
AHS Centaur
Convoy GP55
Indian Ocean raid
U-862
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Pacific War
Central Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Marshalls–Gilberts raids
K
Doolittle Raid
Midway
Gilberts and Marshalls
Marianas and Palau
Volcano and Ryukyu
Truk
Ocean Island
Indian Ocean (1941–1945)
Japanese merchant raids
Andaman Islands
Homfreyganj massacre
Christmas Island
1st Indian Ocean
Ceylon
Bay of Bengal
2nd Indian Ocean
Southeast Asia
Indochina (1940)
Franco-Thai War
Thailand
Malaya
Hong Kong
Singapore
Indochina (1945)
Malacca Strait
Jurist
Tiderace
Zipper
Strategic bombing (1944–45)
Burma and India
Burma (1941–42)
Burma (1942–43)
Burma and India (1944)
Burma (1944–45)
Southwest Pacific
Dutch East Indies (1941–42)
Philippines (1941–42)
RY
Solomon Islands
Coral Sea
Timor
Australia
New Guinea
New Britain
Philippines (1944–45)
Borneo (1945)
North America
Ellwood
Aleutian Islands
Estevan Point Lighthouse
Fort Stevens
Lookout Air Raids
Fire balloon bombs
Project Hula
PX
Japan
Air raids
Tokyo
Yokosuka
Kure
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mariana Islands
Volcano and Ryukyu Islands
Starvation
Naval bombardments
Sagami Bay
South Sakhalin
Kuril Islands
Shumshu
Downfall
Japanese surrender
Manchuria and Northern Korea
Kantokuen
Manchuria (1945)
Mutanchiang
Chongjin
Second Sino-Japanese War
The Battle for Australia is a contested historiographical term used to claim a coordinated link between a series of battles near Australia during the Pacific War of the Second World War alleged to be in preparation for a Japanese invasion of the continent.
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