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Old 01-09-2007, 12:02 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Raz View Post
Feb 15th 1942, Percival and his high command.
Percival with great dissatisfaction was outvoted by his commanders and it was decided to surrender.
Percival had wanted instead an all out counter attack but with a deteriorating water supply and
demoralized troops it was already out of his hands.

Wasn't it Halsey who said to Spruance, (Midway)
"You once told me, When you're in Command, Command!
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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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