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  • East Timor war heroes deserve a medal: nun 24 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... for their assistance and protection of Australian troops during World War II. Australian soldiers were sent to Timor in December 1941 ... the island against the rapidly advancing Japanese army which invaded the island two months later. ...

  • NAVAL AIR: Larger Japanese Carriers On the Way 27 Nov 2009 11:18 GMT
    ... November 27, 2009: Japan has decided to build a second class ... largest warship built in Japan since World War II. The Japanese constitution forbids it to have aircraft ... will carry 14 helicopters, a battalion of troops, and fifty trucks or armored vehicles. The ...

  • Target Tokyo: The invasion of Japan that never happened 24 Nov 2009 18:03 GMT
    ... While the average age of a combat soldier in World War II was 26, the ... have required a massive infusion of fresh troops. Volunteers had to be 17. At 18, ... die fighting or by suicide. The 1st Army would have landed at Kujukuri Beach on ...

  • World War Two: Lessons and WarningsA lecture by Nick Beams 26 Nov 2009 06:16 GMT
    ... anniversary of the outbreak of World War II has been met with a strange, ... violence hitherto unimagined. Eight to ten million soldiers will be at each other’s throats and ...

  • Nick Beams delivers lecture in Sydney and MelbourneWorld War Two: Lessons and Warnings 18 Nov 2009 11:35 GMT
    ... anniversary of the outbreak of World War II has been met with a strange, ... violence hitherto unimagined. Eight to ten million soldiers will be at each other’s throats and ...

  • The Battle of Okinawa 2009: Obama vs Hatoyama [Japanese translation] 21 Nov 2009 19:32 GMT
    ... ambiguous pledge to withdraw a number of troops (on that ambiguity, see below). Though binding ... Japan had to do. In November 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates instructed Japan to resume ... designed “to reduce the burden of post-World War II American military presence in Okinawa,” [14] it ...

  • WWII vets sympathize with today's soldiers 18 Nov 2009 23:36 GMT
    ... was hit by anti-aircraft fire, thinks that soldiers and Marines who've served in Iraq and ... was also a technical sergeant, in the Army Air Corps, certainly recognized a Japanese kamikaze ... on Iwo Jima, where American and Japanese troops fought hand-to-hand combat in the deadliest battle ...

  • Washington may agree to tweak U.S.-Japan military alliance 19 Nov 2009 00:40 GMT
    ... and Japan over the future of U.S. troops in Japan, Washington may be open to ... by Washington since the end of World War II. That assertiveness played out in a spat ... said than done, as U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates raised eyebrows during his last ...

  • Reggae band recounts Army bases, lifting spirits and learning a thing or two on its latest tour of duty 24 Nov 2009 13:54 GMT
    ... when local reggae band Natty Nation toured army bases in the Middle East, they traveled ... came under fire. They performed for tired troops on their third, fourth and fifth round ... “1950s American culture locked in time,” where soldiers brag about having a Burger King, a ...

  • 'Nation' Building: Natty Nation brings message of love and peace to troops 25 Nov 2009 15:15 GMT
    ... toured army bases in the Middle East, they traveled ... came under fire. They performed for tired troops on their third, fourth and fifth round ... “1950s American culture locked in time,” where soldiers brag about having a Burger King, a ...

  • Demons still haunt Christian soldier 19 Nov 2009 00:34 GMT
    ... faith and refused to kill as a soldier. And though he never took anyone's life, ... were going to bayonet Chinese Eighth Route Army prisoners of war. Watabe said he could ... this, he replied "Yes, sir!" Several hardened troops cursed Watabe and spat on him. One ...

  • Will review unravel '06 U.S.-Japan troop relocation pact? 25 Nov 2009 23:39 GMT
    ... — Ever since the United States and Japan signed a pact in 2006 to realign ... plan, which also includes changes for U.S. troops on the Japanese mainland, the spokesman said. ... facilities at mainland Japan Air and Maritime Self-Defense Force bases for Marine KC-130 refueling aircraft. A ...

  • Total War: A retrospective 25 Nov 2009 18:16 GMT
    ... Medieval increased its battlefield capacity to 10,000 soldiers and added destructible buildings. Siege warfare was ... to choke both was to divide your army. The computer's tactical AI was also greatly ... II, instead served as highly vulnerable impact troops and as tactical chips on a board, ...

  • 4TH LD: Cost-cutting gov't unit rejects plan to increase SDF troops+ 26 Nov 2009 13:51 GMT
    ... government on Thursday called for rejecting the Defense Ministry's 7,216 million yen budget request for fiscal ... to increase the number of Self-Defense Forces troops by about 3,500. A working group of ... for expenses related to the U.S. military, Japan and the United States have agreed that ...

  • AFGHAN DETAINEESKnowing about war crimes 23 Nov 2009 23:15 GMT
    ... Last Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 | 5:27 PM ... handed over to Afghan authorities by Canadian soldiers. Both international and Canadian law require officials ... they are told or suspect that a war crime or crime against humanity is being ...


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