[naturalman1975]

[Enterprise]

Bump for a great post.

[tje]

Two bayonet charges.. wow.. tough guy.. thanks for posting..

[PAR35]

Like the rest of the 6th Division, Burrows was brought back from Greece by the government when Japan joined the war.

Another reporter proves he knows neither history nor how to use Google. Greece and Crete fell months before Japan attacked England and the Commonwealth, the US, and the Dutch.

So there were no Australian troops left in Greece to bring home by the time the Pacific war fired up. In fact, the war in Greece had been over for a good 6 months. (Greece - April - May 1941, Crete, May, 1941).

[68skylark]

Interesting. I've been enjoying books recently from the U.S. Army's recommended reading list, and one of the books has a lot of information about U.S. and Australian cooperation during WWII in the South Pacific.

Until I read Touched With Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific I didn't know much about this theater of the war. The author says the cooperation was extremely good -- he says there were tighter links between the U.S. Army and Australian Army than there were between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.

[mmercier]

Great post.

>> His widow, Val Burrows, of Mosman in Sydney, said yesterday that Burrows had never spoken much about the war.

I have a relative that survived iwo jima and one other Pacific assault. He has never, to this date said a single word about his time in the USMC uniform to anyone, including his wife.

[SunkenCiv]

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