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More then likely America saved Australia from eventual occupation by the Japanese.
Japan was invading nations left and right and rolling over nations like china etc with ease, they were brutal and killed civilians left and right even children , raping women and in general being real monsters.
Australia was and still is a weak nation with a small military. They were in no position to defend themselves.
Certainly US power was critical in the defeat of the Japanese empire, the British Navy was pinned down in the European war and no longer had the capacity to take on the Japanese empire.
Australia fought with the UK long before the US ever entered but there is no way either country could have defeated Japan.
Japan was conflicted about an invasion of Australia, the Navy offered the idea, but the Army was opposed. Tojo vetoed the idea.
But certainly without America in the war (a nation who was dragged kicking and screaming into that war) Australia would have been at the mercy of the Japanese empire.
This is why after the war we cemented strategic alliances with the USA, as has even defeated Japan.
Australians have a great deal of respect for the Greatest Generation of Americans.
Not so much this generation of Americans.
On a serious note Aussies tend to like Americans, most of the country are baffled by support for Trump and we were scarred by Iraq, as were you, the lack of occupato
...again, no one thinks about the logistics necessary to just even make a landing in Australia, much less ''defeat'' Aussie-land.....
....the Japanese didn't even take Port Moreseby!!!!!
..and the Aussies stopped them on the Kokoda Trail
--so the Aussies were a long way from needing to be saved
...etc
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sure they were the japs would of invaded down under sooner or later and raped plundered and run a muck just like they did ever where else in the south pacific .
with out Americas military in the south pacific defeating the japs you would be eating rice and have a living god running your nation taking the iron ore and food for free .
china may do that one day anyway if you guys down under dont grow a set and START ACTING LIKE MEN .
You know Bob, I am rapidly coming to the conclusion you are either a bored 14 year old kid or you are simply a man who does not have much light in that brain bulb of yours.
Well Jake I am 62 in 2 days and retired for 3 years ,
Im a former worker on the shuttle program and the eelv program among several for Boeing and Lockeed Martin , I worked at a experimental chemical company making assorted chemicals in reactors from 50 gallon to 2000 gallons.
I was right under the manager of a major ski resort And, I worked for a top 100 college and I was a departmental manager for a fortune 500 company in California .
So if I am light in the brain department then that makes you a slobbering drooling moron , you being Australian that fits well.
I will wait for the movie Bob.
I see Divine playing you.
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