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agent86 wrote:
Kiska and Attu were and are US territory.never invaded aus but did the US
I think you'll find that back then New Guinea was just as much a territory of Australia as Kiska and Attu were territories of the USA.
And further to that there was actually a small forc of around 300 Japanese soldiers who landed on mainland Australia in the remote Northern Territory, to scope out the defences and attempt a toehold on the continent. However the harshness of the coastal desert environment mena most of them either starved or died from disease and the rst scarpered back to New Guinea after a matter of months there. The Australian forces were not even aware of their being there, and the Japanese were not that convinced it was a great idea either. The Bush Tucker Man, an Australian Army historian and survival expert who had an excellent TV show, did a documentary on this failed landing.
The Australian forces were pretty convinced that the Japanese had little hope of invading the northern parts of Australia, and they set up their main defence against any invasion along what was known as The Brisbane Line, level with that city pretty much. So they were willing to concede a fair chunk of the continent to any enemy willing and stupid enough to try to take it on.
There were plans in the making however for the Japanese to attempt to take New Zealand once they had secured New Guinea. We are thankful to the Australians and Americans fighting in NG and the US Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea for turning back the tide and making this much less a possibility. Unlike Australia, in 1942 the Japanese could have waltzed right into NZ with little opposition.
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