The recent carefully staged announcement of a further alliance between Australia, Japan and the USA is at once more significant for the defence of all three countries but also historically significant too. That the announcement was made in Darwin heralds a new stage in a modern relationship but underscores where all three countries fought to the death 82 years ago.
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Dr Tom Lewis is a military historian, whose latest work ‘Cyclone Warriors – the armed forces in Cyclone Tracy’, has just been released by Avonmore Books. Last year ‘The Sinking of HMAS Sydney’ shed new light on the greatest wartime naval loss of life in a single ship for the RAN.
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