Re: "Was there a Battle for Australia?" , did the yanks " save us " ?? , when did this idea emerge , by Dr Peter Stanley AWM Canberra

"kangarooistan" <peramangk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>For Australia, 1942 was the year of greatest losses, a year of crises
>confronted and overcome. It was a year in which war briefly touched
>Australia’s shores. What does this mean for the way we remember 1942?


You seem to have forgotten the Battle of the Coral Sea.  I don't recall
any 
Australian units being involved in the battle that  stopped the Japanese 
drive to Australia.