Anybody have the skinny on what it's all about? Something about the naval base?
Anybody have the skinny on what it's all about? Something about the naval base?
"My God, I wish we had the 9th Australian Division with us this morning."
- - Major-General Francis de Guingaund, Chief of Staff, Allied Land-Forces Headquarters Europe, D-Day, 1944
"Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army."
— Field Marshal Sir William Slim.
Same old problems with the Russian Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol.
I think it's over a lighthouse.