![]() Mainland Australia came under attack as Japanese aircraft bombed towns and other areas in the north from Western Australia to Queensland. ![]() Personnel from the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Australian Air Force and the Australian Imperial Force took part in campaigns in Europe, the Atlantic, North Africa, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the Pacific, where the militia also fought. By the time of Japan's surrender in August 1945, several months after Germany's defeat, at least 50 million men, women and children, had lost their lives.Īustralia joined the war following Germany's invasion of Poland and while it started on the other side of the world, by the end of 1941 fighting had reached Australia's doorstep. For almost six years, tens of millions of civilians and military personnel from countries around the globe were involved in the deadliest conflict the world has ever seen. ![]() In December 1941 Japan launched a war against the western Allies with attacks on the United States and the Malay Peninsula. In Asia, Japan had been at war in Manchuria and China for almost a decade. In September 1939, after a series of crises and episodes of aggression, a German invasion of Poland led to declarations of war by Britain and France and their dominions.
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