400 Australians Tied Up 9,000 Japanese Troops for a Year — While Everyone Thought They Were Dead
Автор: The Striker Australia WW2
Загружено: 2025-11-30
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In February 1942, Japan invaded the island of Timor. Within days, the small Allied garrison was overwhelmed, and Australia wrote off the 2/2nd Independent Company as captured or dead. For nearly three months, families received no news. The Army listed them as missing.
But these 400 commandos hadn't surrendered. They'd vanished into the mountains of Portuguese Timor with their weapons, their training, and a determination to fight. Using a homemade radio transmitter called "Winnie the War Winner," built from scrounged parts by Signalman Keith Richards, they finally contacted Darwin on April 20th, 1942.
What followed was one of the most effective guerrilla campaigns of the entire Pacific War. A handful of Australian commandos, supported by courageous Timorese civilians, tied down over 9,000 Japanese troops for an entire year — soldiers who could have been fighting at Guadalcanal or pushing down the Kokoda Track toward Australia.
This is the story of the 2/2nd Independent Company, the Timorese who sacrificed everything to help them, and the forgotten campaign that proved what a small force with local support could achieve against overwhelming odds.
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#WW2 #WorldWarII #PacificWar #AustralianHistory #Timor #GuerrillaWarfare #MilitaryHistory
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