Minesweepers, engineers: Direct military aid in Borneo |
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| Title : | Minesweepers, engineers: Direct military aid in Borneo |
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| Source : | Advertiser, 17 April 1964, p. 1, col. a | ||
| Date of creation : | 1964 | ||
| Format : | Newspaper | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Article announcing that Australian defence personnel had been committed to assist Malaysian forces against Indonesian incursions into Malaysian territory. The Australian government had been initially reluctant to become involved in the conflict, not wanting to harm its relationship with Indonesia. |
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| Coverage year : | 1964 |
| Period : | 1946-1979 |
| Further reading : | 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 Smith, Neil. Nothing short of war: with the Australian Army in Borneo 1962-66, Brighton, Vic: Mostly Unsung Military History Research and Publications, 1999 Subritzky, John. Confronting Sukarno : British, American, Australian and New Zealand diplomacy in the Malaysian-Indonesian confrontation, 1961-5, Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000 |
| Internet links : | Australian Army History Unit [Department of Defence]: See: History & Battles: History Index: Indonesian Confrontation 1964-65 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: Confrontation in Indonesia 1964-1966 Sea Power Centre - Australia: See: History: Feature Articles: Indonesian Confrontation |
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