Australia's Military Role in Asia since WW2

Standing up to the neighbourhood bullies. - Korea, Malay Emergency - Indonesian Confrontation  -Vietnam - Gulf War 1 -

Australias Military Role in Asia 1948-2006

1950-53 - Korean War - Australian troops, Korean War, United Nations Forces, Korea, Royal Australian Navy, R.A.A.F, South Korea, 1950 - Australian battalion for Korea. - British Commonwealth Brigade, American Eighth Army, North Korea, Chinese 'human wave' attacks, reinforcements, Chinese offensive on the Kapyong River in April 1951 - patrols, raids, ambushes, bombardments - Over 1 - 200 Australians were wounded in the Korean War and 339 were killed.
1950 - RAN in the Korean War, HMA Sydney, Anzac, Bataan, Tobrok, Warramunga, Culgoa, Condamine, Murchison, Shoalhaven
1950 - Nursing in 1950 - Sister Hazel Woolston, Crown Street Women's Hospital, Royal Brisbane Hospital
1951 - HMAS Bataan, Nationalist Chinese, blockade, China,
1951 - HMAS Anzac II, a ship's history, Williamstown Naval Dockyard, Com. John Plunkett - Cole RAN, Royal Australian Navy, 22 March 1951 - Korea, area headquarters Communist forces, Hong Kong, Lieutenant Commander W.O.C. Roberts RAN, Singapore, Malayan Emergency (1948 - 60), Fleet Training Ship
1953 - 27 July - The UN and North Korea sign an agreement to end fighting in the war. The conflict remains unresolved to this day.
1955 - Malayan Insurgency - World War II, Australian troops, Malaya, British, Japanese defeat in 1945 - self government - . Malayan Communists, Federation of Malaya, 1948 - armed communist revolt, Australia, spread of communism in Asia, offered troops, British forces, R.A.A.F, 1950 - ground troops, 1955 to 1962
1956 - Olympic Games held in Melbourne.
1961 - 1962 RAN ships, Saigon

1963 - Indonesian Confrontation, 1963 - Indonesia, confrontation policy, Malaysia, Indonesian guerrilla forces, Borneo, Australian troops, P.M. Menzies, South East Asia, Sukarno overthrown in 1967
1965 - Vietnam War, USA, Vietnam conflict, 1962 - 1972 - South Vietnam, North Vietnam, communist forces, South Vietnamese communist guerrilla troops
1965 - RAN in the Vietnam War, Royal Australian Navy, Vietnam War, Australian destroyers, HMAS Sydney, `Vung Tau Ferry', Australian Clearance Divers
1964 - Jan Bell, Vietnam War Nurse, Vietnam, Saigon, Concord Hospital, civil surgical team, Vietnam, 100 civilian nurses, Vung Tau, "the Riviera of South - East Asia", Saigon
1965 - Nursing in Vietnam, Sister Arm Hall,, Brisbane's Mater Hospital, 1960s., First Australian Field Hospital, Vung Tau, Vietnam war 1967 - Australian White Ensign - Australian National Line, cargo ship Boonaroo, 1909 Imperial Conference, 1965 - Member for Batman, Mr SJ Benson MP -
1974 - Operation Navy Help Darwin, Darwin, Cyclone Tracy
1990 - Gulf War 1 - Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Kuwait, August 1990, oilfields, United Nations, missile attacks on Israel 1991, USA, Middle East, coalition of Arab and Western States, United Nations control, Prime Minister Bob Hawke, two ships, Royal Australian Navy, Persian Gulf, 1996.
1990 - Helen Joyce, Gulf War Nurse, Army, nursing, Mater in Newcastle, Australia, 1980 - military, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps, lieutenant, Auburn Hospital, Concord, amphibious landing, Kuwait, oil fields,
1995 - Jodie Routley, Army, 1987 - EN's training, pathology technician, RN's degree, 1993 to 1995 Lieutenant, Bougainville, peacekeeping mission, New Guinea, tidal wave
2001 - Australia turns away hundreds of boat people over several months.
2003 - Defence Delivers Record Number of Medals, Australian Defence Force, 102 - 000 medals, Defence Directorate of Honours and Awards
2003-6 - Aussie Uniforms Asian Faces 2003 - 6 - Defence picture gallery.
2006 - Anzac Day Commemorations 2006 - Defence picture gallery.

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