Men Who Came Out Of The Ground

Timor 1942- Australia's First Commandoes

PAUL CLEARY

HACHETTE AUSTRALIA, Australian Studies

Paperback, 9780733623189

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It was early 1942, Australia was in dire straits. The seemingly all-conquering Japanese military forces had rolled over south-east Asia. Singapore had fallen. Most of the 23,000 soldiers Australia had sent to its north to fight had been captured. Only a few hundred men remained in Timor. These soldiers, the 2/2 Australian Independent Company – Sparrow Force – were all that stood between Japanese forces and Papua New Guinea. A Special Forces unit set up to fight a different kind of war, many were bushmen and crack shots, and all were trained to fight behind enemy lines. Mobilising the support of the locals, the 2/2 Company avoided pitched battles instead picking just the right time to strike. They adapted their bush skills to become masters of this new kind of commando warfare. Always greatly outnumbered but relentless in their harassing campaign of skirmishes and ambushes, Sparrow Force tied down thousands of Japanese in a fierce guerilla war – not just matching them but beating them.

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