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    Australia in the War of 19391945 is a 22-volume official history series covering Australian involvement in the Second World War. The series was published...
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    The War Medal 19391945 is a campaign medal which was instituted by the United Kingdom on 16 August 1945, for award to citizens of the British Commonwealth...
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    Australia entered World War II on 3 September 1939, following the government's acceptance of the United Kingdom's declaration of war on Nazi Germany. Australia...
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  • The history of Australia from 1901 to 1945 begins with the federation of the six colonies to create the Commonwealth of Australia. The young nation joined...
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    The Australia Service Medal 19391945 recognises service in Australia's armed forces, Mercantile Marine and Volunteer Defence Corps during World War II...
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    The 19391945 Star is a military campaign medal instituted by the United Kingdom on 8 July 1943 for award to British and Commonwealth forces for service...
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    The Australian Army was the largest service in the Australian military during World War II. Prior to the outbreak of war the Australian Army was split...
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    History of the Second World War (104 volumes), Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1949 to 1993 Official History of Australia in the War of 19391945 (22...
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    Volume I – Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942. Australia in the War of 19391945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. Archived from the original (PDF) on...
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    during the early years of the Pacific War. Robert Menzies was sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia for the first time on 26 April 1939 following the death...
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    Richard (1983). The Great War at Sea, 1914-1918. Oxford University Press. p. 223. ISBN 9780192158710. Australia in the war of 1939-1945: Ser. 5. Medical...
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    Year. Australia in the War of 19391945. Series 1 – Army. Vol. 5. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 3134247. Miller, Edward S. (2007). War Plan Orange:...
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    fascist client state of Nazi Germany which existed between 14 March 1939 and 4 April 1945 in Central Europe. The Slovak part of Czechoslovakia declared...
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    The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of...
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    The Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF, or Second AIF) was the volunteer expeditionary force of the Australian Army in the Second World War. It...
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    participated in World War II from 1939 to 1945 as a member of the Axis and encapsulates a significant period in the history of the Empire of Japan, marked...
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    Hermon (1957). Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942. Australia in the War of 19391945, Series 2, Volume I. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 848228...
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    First Year: Kokoda to Wau. Australia in the War of 19391945. Series 1 – Army. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. Archived from the original on 2009-05-25...
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    The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945. During the initial phase in early 1942, the...
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    George (1968). Air War Against Japan 1943–1945. Australia in the War of 19391945. Series 3 – Air (reprint ed.). Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 11218821...
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    University of Illinois Press. ISBN 025207064X. Odgers, George (1968) [1957]. Air War Against Japan, 1943–1945. Australia in the War of 19391945. Series...
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    against the persecution of Jewish citizens. World War II occurred in four distinct phases in the Netherlands: September 1939 to May 1940: After the war broke...
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    Archibald Roosevelt (category United States Army personnel of World War I)
    David Dexter (1961) Australia in the War of 19391945. Series 1 – Army – Volume 6 Chapter 5. The Capture of Mubo, The Australian War Memorial (TOC Archived...
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    Gavin Merrick (1963). The Final Campaigns. Australia in the War of 19391945. Series 1 – Army. Vol. VII. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 464094764...
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    War of 19391945, Series 1 – Army. Vol. II. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 3134080. Lord, Cliff; Watson, Graham (2003). The Royal Corps of Signals:...
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    (2001). The Encyclopedia of Australia's Battles. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. Gillison, Douglas (1962). History of Australia in the War of 19391945. Series...
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    World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers...
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    expelled. Bratislava was taken by the Soviets on 4 April. On 5 May 1945, in the last moments of the war in Europe, the Prague uprising (Czech: Pražské povstání)...
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    (1957). Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942. Australia in the War of 19391945. Vol. Series 2 – Navy. Volume II. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 250134639...
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    (1957). Australia in the War of 19391945. Series 2 – Navy. Vol. I – Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942 (1st edition, 1957 ed.). Canberra: Australian War Memorial...
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