Direct action Raiding Special operations Reconnaissance Jungle warfare
Size
Unknown number of officers, 200+ other ranks
Engagements
World War II
Pacific War
Solomon Islands campaign
Guadalcanal campaign
Bougainville campaign
Military unit
The Fiji Guerrillas were a commando battalion consisting of two commando companies, raised by the New Zealand Army for service during World War II. The Fiji Guerrillas consisted of Fijian, Tongan and Solomon Islander servicemen, who served under the command of New Zealander and British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force (BSIPDF) NCOs. The commando companies were tasked with conducting reconnaissance, scouting and special operation activities against Japanese forces as part of the Pacific War.
The FijiGuerrillas were a commando battalion consisting of two commando companies, raised by the New Zealand Army for service during World War II. The...
Commandos: New Zealanders and Fijians in Action. A History of Southern Independent Commando and First Commando FijiGuerrillas. Wellington: Reed Publishing...
Commandos: New Zealanders and Fijians in Action. A History of Southern Independent Commando and First Commando FijiGuerrillas. Wellington: Reed Publishing...
Commandos: New Zealanders and Fijians in Action: A History of Southern Independent Commando and First Commando FijiGuerrillas. Reed Publishing. OCLC 1135029131...
Commandos: New Zealanders and Fijians in Action: A History of Southern Independent Commando and First Commando FijiGuerrillas. Reed Publishing. OCLC 1135029131...
Different guerrilla-style movements have appeared in Venezuela, Nigeria, Fiji, and Colombia ever since the Spanish conquest of the Americas. The indigenous...
secure Segi Point and Viru Harbor. In their stead, a company of Fijian and Tongan Guerrillas from a New Zealand-trained commando unit was detailed to assist...
the conflict, security forces killed 6,710 MNLA guerrillas and captured 1,287, while 2,702 guerrillas surrendered during the conflict, and approximately...
Talaiasi Labalaba BEM (13 July 1942 – 19 July 1972) was a British-Fijian sergeant in the SAS who was involved in the Battle of Mirbat on 19 July 1972....
of both political and religious rituals performed by the Fijian people. It persisted in Fiji because of cultural beliefs embracing it. In contrast to...
which forced the guerrillas to retreat. After the battle the British and their allies recovered the corpses of the attacking guerrillas, some were put on...
this was the Fijian chief Tanoa Visawaqa who, in the 1840s, used arms purchased from a Swedish mercenary to subdue most of Western Fiji. Tonga was also...
defeating the MNLA guerrillas. Templer oversaw the finalising of the Briggs Plan, the British military strategy to defeat Malaysian guerrillas by forcibly transferring...
post-war U.S. occupation of Canada, later the suppression of Canadian guerrillas during the Second Great War. Qumar The West Wing Middle Eastern state...
altercation with two diplomats from the Chinese embassy in Fiji at an event where Fijian and Taiwanese officials were celebrating Taiwan's national day...
Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a Fijian born British actress. Morris was the daughter of Australian-born Herbert Stanley...
identity, that of a Sydney butcher named Alan Glenn Winter, on a flight to Fiji in late June 1981. Hand wore a false beard and mustache to look like Winter...
senators. / Fred Marafano 1940–2013 1984–2006 Sierra Leone Executive Outcomes Fijian-born British Special Air Service operative turned mercenary who fought in...
killed and suspected Maoists bombed five government utilities despite the guerrillas' plans for a nine-day truce from 2 October 2003, officials said. Eight...
Slang term used by American troops as a shorthand term for Vietnamese guerrillas, derived from the verbal shorthand for "Victor Charlie", the NATO phonetic...
Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary and the local guerrillas of the Hunters ROTC Guerrillas after the fighting. After the war, the local casualties...
for it tested by the U.S. Army in 1903. American units fighting Tausūg guerrillas in the Moro Rebellion in Sulu during the Philippine–American War using...
to rise up against the British. Three months later, on 16 June, MNLA guerrillas killed three British rubber plantation managers in Perak province. The...
2010, the Fijian Government passed the Media Industry Development Decree of 2010 establishing the Media Industry Development Authority of Fiji which enforces...
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