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Australia along with England France and America declare war on Germany
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Australian now could be force into training and then fighting during WW2
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Australia's governor general stated that Australia was at war with Japan
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during both January and February, Japanese planes where attacking until in 2nd February 1942 Darwin itself was bombed
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Japanese subs deployed 3 kamikaze midget subs to attack Sydney harbour, with 2 people in each one
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2,000 Japanese marines where sent attack Milne Bay and lost because they under estimated how many troops where there, including 2 Australian infantry brigades. Ended 7th September 1942
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Small Australian patrol led by Lieutenant Alexander Black found that Kokoda was abandoned by the Japanese, who had withdrawn to the Oivi Pass a few days earlier
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The 30th Australian infantry battalion was given the engagement honour after they participated in the capture of Madang, located at the northern tip of Astrolabe Bay, New Guinea
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30,000 Australians took part in the landings on Brunei bay and captured the airfields as well as a town of on the first day with Japanese resistance lasting until the 21st of June 2945
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Japanese announced their surrender in 15th August but was only sighed by the 2nd of September. after surrendering Australian and as well as other soldiers occupied japan encase of a fake surrender
