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Posted on 04/25/2025 12:22:42 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Thousands gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Friday for Anzac Day, a public holiday commemorating military service members who fought and died during wartime.
Anzac Day originally marked the nations' role in an ultimately unsuccessful campaign to capture the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey during World War One, which resulted in 130,000 deaths on both sides of the conflict. In a key episode on April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) took part in an ill-fated amphibious invasion by British Empire forces on the area's narrow beaches.
"It is now a century and a decade since the first Anzacs climbed into their boats and rowed into history," centre-left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who paused election campaigning for the day, said in a statement. "The years come and go, and still we come together to honour them and all who have followed."
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We will remember them
Lest we forget.
https://ww100.govt.nz/a-century-of-anzac-days
RIP, heroes.
I had watched some videos of the battle for New Guinea . Hellish conditions , streaming hot jungle at sea level and towering 6,000 ft high mountain peaks .
A Japanese officer looked at the Imperial Army plans and told them they were doomed from the start . He did some calculations for logistics and said that they would need an army of porters as there were zero roads , no rail, no airstrips.
He was kicked off the team at that point and sent away . He was 100% correct.
The Japanese army would suffer their first land war defeat in the theatre .
It looked doable on paper I suppose , just up and over the mountain range and victory was theirs !
Both sides had to carry everything , the wounded, food, supplies. Exhaustion and disease would take its toll.
The Kokota Track
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKURhqmSLmM
Was privileged to serve 6 months in the Sinai with the ANZAC RWAU as our sister unit at North Camp in the MFO. Partying with them could be hazardous to your health.
ANZAC day celebrates losers. Got their butts kicked.
Gallipoli Memorial
https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/conflict/ww1/display/90770-gallipoli-memorial
Lone Pine Cemetery (Anzac) - stock photo
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/lone-pine-cemetery-royalty-free-image/529545799?phrase=gallipoli
List of war cemeteries and memorials on the Gallipoli Peninsula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_cemeteries_and_memorials_on_the_Gallipoli_Peninsula
ANZAC day celebrates losers. Got their butts kicked.
That’s common when the attack is going to go forward irrespective of obstacles. The decision has already been made, the attack will go forward. That can happen because of the normal rise in the threshold of suffering during warfare.
When the Soviets were egging on Mao’s Chinese henchmen to massively invade the Korean peninsula, a Nork general pointed out that their adversaries (us, mostly) had recent experience at enormous successful amphibious landings, and that Korea was a peninsula and such force would be cut off and whipped. He was upbraided.
The Chinese ‘volunteers’ invaded, roughly 2 million of them. Each was sent with a 10 pound bag of rice as their provisions (and a half hour later they were hungry again, wait, wrong story). When they were low on rice, they were to find the unused rice in the provision of a dead comrade.
As a service to all, I’m going to cut out another aside that would go right here.
UN forces wound up pushed into the Pusan Perimeter. During a press meeting, I think it was Chesty Puller who said, “they’ve got us surrounded. That simplifies the problem.”
The Inchon landings sent a shock through the Chinese invaders, and they were pulled back as quick as could be. The estimated losses of Chinese ‘volunteers’ in this whole escapade goes as high as 500K.
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