Australian Military History

By Warwick O'Neill

Focusing on specific events, people and groups throughout the history of Australia at arms.

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February 07, 2023 The Battle of Kapyong Valley Part 1
In April 1951, as troops from 3RAR were resting and preparing for Anzac Day commemorations, the Chinese army launched its largest offensive since its entry to the Korean War. The UN front collapsed and soon the Australians on the right of the Kapyong Valley, with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regiment on the left with some minor support units in between, would soon be all that stood between the Chinese army and a devastating victory.
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34min
December 20, 2022 Yule, Christmas, Holiday
Happy Yule, Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday everyone. If you can't be good, be good at it. And if you're not in bed by midnight, go home......

The link to the Hardtack Podcast episode on the Sandakan Death March is here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/43rA9mjEdnNMN8rdR1p6wy?si=e3450ddc61b149c8

Or alternatively, search Hardtack Podcast where ever you get your podcasts.

Cheers everyone, see you next year.
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2min
December 06, 2022 Reg Saunders
Coming from a long line of Indigenous servicemen, going all the way back to the Boer War, Reg Saunders joined the Second AIF in 1940. He would see action in Greece, avoid capture for eleven months on the island of Crete, and fight his way through the Salamaua Campaign. Along the way, he would be come the first aboriginal soldier to received a battlefield commission.
When the Korean War broke out, Reg once again volunteered to fight. He would lead his company during the ferocious fighting at Kapyong as well as other hard fought battles.
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31min
November 15, 2022 Buna-Gona-Sanananda Part 3
After weeks of heavy fighting, only Gona had been successfully wrenched from the Japanese forces. The Australian 21st and 25th Brigades were worn out, and in front of Buna, the Americans were going nowhere. General Blamey had one more Brigade left to throw into the fight, the 18th Brigade. But their battalions were scattered between Milne Bay and the surrounding islands. Eventually they would be bought into the fighting at Buna, where the Japanese had been holding off every attempt by the US 32 Division. If this Brigade was also worn out, then the campaign to evict the Japanese from New Guinea would come to a grinding halt.
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32min
October 25, 2022 Buna-Gona-Sanananda Part 2
With Allied forces checked at Buna and on the Sanananda Track, the campaign hinged on the Australian attack to seize the westernmost village on the Japanese beachhead, Gona. The 25th Brigade, already exhausted from the fighting across the Owen Stanley Ranges, was tasked to seize Gona, but the attack would soon wear down the 25th as well as the 21st Brigade which was sent in to relieve them. It would all come down to one final throw of the dice.

This episode is sponsored by History Guild in conjunction Military History and Heritage Victoria. Go and check them out at:

https://historyguild.org/

https://www.mhhv.org.au/

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36min
October 04, 2022 Buna-Gona-Sanananda Part 1
By late 1942, the Allies had pushed the Japanese forces back along the Kokoda Track and were now down on the coastal plains of northern New Guinea. The Japanese may have been retreating, but they intended to hold the vital beachheads from Gona down through Sanananda to Buna. The fight to take the beachheads would be bloody and brutal, but first the Australians and their American comrades had to get there.

This episode is sponsored by HistoryGuild.org.

Also, check out Military History and Heritage Victoria at MHHV.org.au
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39min
September 13, 2022 Long Tan - Part 2
As Delta Company, 6RAR move into the rubber plantation near Long Tan, 11 Platoon surprises a Vietnamese patrol and the first shots of the Battle are fired. With orders to chase the fleeing enemy, 11 Platoon unknowingly heads directly towards the North Vietnamese HQ. The next three hours would become an example of the best, and some of the worst, of the Australian military and their New Zealand comrades.
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53min
August 23, 2022 Long Tan - Part 1
With the newly established 1st Australian Task Force settled in to Nui Dat, work started on neutralising the Viet Cong activity in the area. The Viet Cong had other ideas. They wanted to draw out the Australians and engulf them with overwhelming numbers. Despite the mounting evidence, Brigadier Jackson didn't believe the North Vietnamese Army had arrived in Phuoc Tuy Province, even after a mortar attack was unleashed on the Task Force Base.
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27min
August 17, 2022 Hardtack Podcast
G'day everyone. Follow this here link to tune into the story of our most humiliating military defeat.

https://anchor.fm/hsmh/episodes/Episode-03-The-Great-Emu-War-e1m08lk
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August 02, 2022 Broodseinde Ridge
On the backs of the victories of Menin Road and Polygon Wood, the 1st Anzac Corps pushed on towards the dominating feature of Broodseinde Ridge. This time though, they would have the men of the 2nd Anzac Corps fighting alongside them. The Battle would see the Allied troops looking down upon green pastures for the first time in three years, bringing hope that the war may soon be over.
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35min

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