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Australians in action: Drive on Malayan terrorists
Title : Australians in action: Drive on Malayan terrorists Australians in action: Drive on Malayan terrorists
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Source : Advertiser, 2 January 1956, p. 1, col. a-b
Date of creation : 1956
Format : Newspaper
Contributor : State Library catalogue
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Article written by a correspondent in Malaya with the Australian troops, describing Australian soldiers in their first action against the communist forces in the Malayan Emergency.


Subjects
Coverage year : 1956
Period : 1946-1979
Further reading :

Bannister, Colin. An inch of bravery: 3 RAR in the Malayan Emergency, 1957-59, Canberra: Directorate of Army Public Affairs, 1994

Coates, John. Suppressing insurgency: an analysis of the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1954, Boulder: Westview Press, 1992

Dennis, Peter and Grey, Jeffrey. Emergency and confrontation: Australian military operations in Malaya & Borneo 1950-66, St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial, 1996

Macdougall, Anthony. Australians at war : a pictorial history, Nobel Park, Vic. : Five Mile Press, 2002

Internet links :

Australian Army History Unit [Department of Defence]: See: History & Battles: History Index: Malayan Emergency 1955-60

Australians at War [Department of Veterans' Affairs]: See: The Great Search Stories: South East Asia 1950-1966

Australian War Memorial See: Australian Military History Overview: Malayan Emergency

Sea Power Centre - Australia: See: History: Feature Articles: Malayan Emergency

Victorians at War - Oral History project [Department of Veterans' Affairs and State Library of Victoria]: See: Overview: Malaya


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