Posted on 04/24/2010 9:21:47 PM PDT by TonyfromOz
Today is a special day in Australia, the most solemn day on our Calendar in fact. It is ANZAC Day, the day we recognise all those veterans who gave us the freedom we have today. This day was specially selected because at 4.15AM, at Dawn on the morning of this day in 1915, an Australian and New Zealand Corps came ashore under intense fire at a small cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula, now known forever as ANZAC Cove. The campaign may have been a disaster but this was the first time Australians had fought as an Australian entity, and they announced to the World that they were no longer colonials from the furthest edges of the Earth, but an armed service who could hold their own in any Company. The Post details the commemoration, and also briefly describes that campaign.
Happy ANZAC Day!
Gallopoli was a brutal ordeal.
Thank you Australia and New Zealand for all you’ve done.
I seem to remember that while the Aussies did all they were asked, they suffered under Brit leadership that was “lacking in aggression.” They took the beach but let the enemy hold the relatively undefended high ground until later when it had been reinforced. I seem to remember it was a big lesson on “things not to do” later when Ike and the boys went to Normandy.
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