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Once the Philippines fell to Japanese troops, Roosevelt decided that Australia would become the main American base in the south-west Pacific. Roosevelt ordered General Douglas MacArthur, former US commander in the Philippines, to travel to Melbourne to take command of the Allied forces in the area.
Apr 7, 2022 · By mid-1942, 30,000 Americans were stationed around the city. During World War II Melbourne was the first Australian city to be exposed to the impact of the American military on a large scale.
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Victorians were mobilised as part of civil defence preparations all over the state. Over 60,000 people volunteered as auxiliary police officers or for Air Raid Precautions (ARP) activities.11 Preparations included air raid training demonstrations and emergency drills, sandbagging of prominent buildings, and the construction of communal bomb shelter...
Though the lights were out, Melbourne was a riot of activity and its night scene was teeming with life. By April 1942, some 30,000 American service personnel were stationed in Melbourne, under the leadership of General Douglas MacArthur.13Many of the US troops were stationed at Camp Pell, in Royal Park. A visitor from Canberra noted: In the half-li...
On the 3rd of May 1942, the body of Ivy Violet McLeod was found in the doorway of a shop next to the Bleak House Hotel in Albert Park. Less than a week later another woman – Pauline Thompson – was found outside a city boarding house after a night out. On May 18, a third victim – Gladys Hosking – was found in Royal Park. All three women had been bea...
Definitive work by Kate Darian-Smith, On the home front: Melbourne in wartime, 1939-1945 (available as an ebook and in hardcopy)Ian Shaw, Murder at Dusk : How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime MelbournePeter Pierce, ‘Leonski, Edward Joseph (1917–1942)’, Australian Dictionary of BiographyThe National Archives of Australia (NAA) holds digitised transcripts of Leonski’s trial, including photographic evidence. You will find these documented on the Eddie Leonski Wikipedia pageunder ‘Re...In Melbourne, on 13 February 1943, a major city street was completely blocked as an estimated crowd of 3500 American and Australian soldiers and local civilians fought an all-out brawl. Newspapers reporting the brawl referred only to ‘troops’ and suppressed the fact that it was Americans against Australians.
Jun 29, 2022 · During the Second World War, Royal Park in Melbourne became a massive US Army base, which at its peak housed thousands of American troops. America entered the war in December 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour.
On March 20, 1942, on that unlikely, heat-baked spot, General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the U.S. and Filipino forces in the Philippines, uttered his most famous and oft-quoted...
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