Post by athos on Apr 26th, 2011 at 12:37pm
It was real Battle for Australia not for England
Was battle for Darwin more important than Gallipoli campaign?
And what should be more celebrated in contest of modern Australia?
Battle for Darwin
The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 were the largest attacks ever mounted by a foreign power against Australia. They were also a significant action in the Pacific campaign of World War II and represented a psychological blow to the Australian population, several weeks after hostilities with Japan had begun. The raids were the first of almost 100 air raids against Australia during 1942–43.
In Battle for Darwin Australian soldiers and people from different cultural, national and racial background (Aborigines, Anglo-Saxons, Chinese, European migrants etc.) were equally involved in defending their families, city, and the land fighting under Australian flag for Australian interests. By all standards It was morally justified attempts to defend Australia from foreign invasion.
- What about Gallipoli?
When British Empire invaded Turkish territory on 25 April 1915,
during the First World War, in the battle of Gallipoli, Australian and New Zealand “volunteers” were killed as a part of British imperial army under command of British generals.
The major reasons for their perish were:
- They were sacrificed by English generals who considered them as " bunch of criminals who deserve to die" (Quote: One of British generals)
- The majority of them were volunteers without any military training or discipline.
Professor Manning Clark in his opus A History of Australia suggests a contrasting image to that of the bronzed and noble ANZAC. From a range of sources he provides evidence of the ANZACs' bad behavior. As recruits, before being shipped to war, some indulged in sex orgies with an 18-year-old girl at the Broadmeadows camp, others confronted police in violent scuffles on the streets of Melbourne. Their behavior in Egypt was no better - they burned the belongings of local people, brawled, got drunk and rioted, and spent sufficient time in the local brothels for many of them to suffer from venereal disease.- (http://www.acn.net.au/articles/anzac/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMLPjNlrTZs
Was battle for Darwin more important than Gallipoli campaign?
And what should be more celebrated in contest of modern Australia?
Battle for Darwin
The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 were the largest attacks ever mounted by a foreign power against Australia. They were also a significant action in the Pacific campaign of World War II and represented a psychological blow to the Australian population, several weeks after hostilities with Japan had begun. The raids were the first of almost 100 air raids against Australia during 1942–43.
In Battle for Darwin Australian soldiers and people from different cultural, national and racial background (Aborigines, Anglo-Saxons, Chinese, European migrants etc.) were equally involved in defending their families, city, and the land fighting under Australian flag for Australian interests. By all standards It was morally justified attempts to defend Australia from foreign invasion.
- What about Gallipoli?
When British Empire invaded Turkish territory on 25 April 1915,
during the First World War, in the battle of Gallipoli, Australian and New Zealand “volunteers” were killed as a part of British imperial army under command of British generals.
The major reasons for their perish were:
- They were sacrificed by English generals who considered them as " bunch of criminals who deserve to die" (Quote: One of British generals)
- The majority of them were volunteers without any military training or discipline.
Professor Manning Clark in his opus A History of Australia suggests a contrasting image to that of the bronzed and noble ANZAC. From a range of sources he provides evidence of the ANZACs' bad behavior. As recruits, before being shipped to war, some indulged in sex orgies with an 18-year-old girl at the Broadmeadows camp, others confronted police in violent scuffles on the streets of Melbourne. Their behavior in Egypt was no better - they burned the belongings of local people, brawled, got drunk and rioted, and spent sufficient time in the local brothels for many of them to suffer from venereal disease.- (http://www.acn.net.au/articles/anzac/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMLPjNlrTZs