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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:08 pm 
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isnt ceylon close to Sri Lanka?,Kiska and Attu were and are US territory.never invaded aus but did the US

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Sri Lanka = Ceylon


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:35 pm 
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Yes Ceylon was the name of the country before it achieved independence and renamed itself Sri Lanka. Ceylon was far more important than the Aleutian Islands, being the main port for the fleet (remember many of the ships that had escaped Singapore were based there now, and of course India was under huge threat from the Japanese and had to be saved at all costs due to its manufacturing for the war effort, plus the war in Burma was crucial and the fleet was heavily involved in the battles there supporting the 14th Army. Ceylon was also a major repair base for the RAF. and it was an important calling place for shipping travelling between the Pacific and the Middles East/Africa/Europe.

Whereas the Aleutians were a big empty expanse, though it had to be defended of course.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:27 pm 
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Dave, I can say I don't know, but that sounds quite possible.
Sydney was attacked once, my mini-subs after an aerial reconnassaince, while Broome and Darwin, as stategic towns and harbours were attacked many more times with a couple of major raids.
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Kiska and Attu were and are US territory.never invaded aus but did the US

If that's in response to my earlier post, I was very precise in my terminology, and also perfectly accurate.

It's also good manners to use correct capitalisation for other nation's names and nicknames as well as one's own. :x

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:17 pm 
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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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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:38 am 
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ok guys,I was obviously being an A-hole and kidding about sri lanka/Ceylon.the US didnt just defeat the japanese,we totally rubbed their noses in it and destroyed their country

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and left lotsa smoldering holes and debris

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Time to move on and back to the thread topic perhaps.

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