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.
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- 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