AUSTRALIAN MILITARY –

In the jungle islands of the southwest Pacific, Australia’s elite M/Z commando teams conducted daring rescue, sabotage, and intelligence missions during World War II. While M Unit secretly set up coast-watching posts to monitor Japanese shipping movements and bombing flights, operatives of Z Unit were inserted deep behind enemy lines, where they attacked Japanese targets in brutal terrain and where capture meant death by beheading. Theirs was a lonely war, but Australian commandos made crucial contributions to Allied victory in the Pacific.

• xiii, 194 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. #050425
• Stackpole Military history series.
• • The beginnings of Allied intelligence and the Pensacola convoy
  • The “Rimau” expedition
  • Commando training : Cecil Anderson’s story
  • Operation “Python” in Borneo
  • Operation “Politician” : the USS Bream patrols
  • The USS Pargo at Woody Island
  • The “Politician” patrols of the USS Bluegill
  • The USS Boarfish and “Politician” at Tourane Bay
  • Operation “Starfish” and the USS Rock
  • The USS Perch II and “Platypus” at Balikpapan
  • The USS Hawkbill and Operation “Crocodile”
  • “Semut” operations and the invasion of Sarawak
  • “Semut IV” : Rowan Waddy’s story
  • Rescue from New Britain: Fred Hargesheimer’s story.
  • Originally published as: Commando!. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 188) and index.
  • Australia. Army — Commando troops
  • Australia. Army. Inter-Allied Services Department
  • Great Britain. Special Operations Executive. Services Reconnaissance Department Z Special Unit
  • Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area. Allied Intelligence Bureau. M Unit
  • World War, 1939-1945 — Military intelligence — Pacific Area
  • World War, 1939-1945 — Commando operations — Pacific Area
  • World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Pacific Area
  • World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Australian
  • Special forces (Military science) — Pacific Area