WW1 and WW2. We are part of the world.
We volunteered well before America woke up scratching their arse!

Im an Aussie, but dont ever think we did this alone, our NZ brothers were there rite next to us ANZAC

We stopped the Germans, we stopped the Japanese. You bet we are proud of our A.N.Z.A.C.S.
What many don't remember is Britain was going to abandon Australia and protect India and wanted Australia to send its forces there. Curtin is a freaking legend just as those who fought were.

my grandfather was a rat of tobruk and in the battle of el alamein so proud of him

Aussies and kiwis will take the piss out of each other like mates do. Put us together to fight and we will beat anyone anywhere.

FYI - Talking about the 6th Australian Division. In three days of fighting, the 6th Australian Division defeated the Italian garrison, capturing four generals and 40,000 prisoners, including their weapons and equipment.

New Zealand always fought along side Australia, ANZACs. New Zealand are literally our brothers in arms, and they should have been mentioned in this video. There is a YT channel about ANZACs during wars, I think it called " ANZAC archives"

Yes mate, little old Australia,  always underestimated 😂

Not the size of the dog in the fight,     but the the size of fight in the dog

When the Australians first encountered the Japanese on the kokoda trail there were only 420 militia thrown together and sent to defend against 4,000 Japanese regulators they were told to hold until the regular army returned from the middle east and that they did.
Japanese didn't push through them because they believed that they were facing a force ten times the size of what they actually were. Thanks to the brilliant leadership of the Australian officers and general who were ridiculed and replaced by the stupid Douglass Macarthur

Wasn't just us,the kiwis with us all the way....thats why we are called ANZACS

My old high school is on a hill that overlooks Sydney Harbour. It was built a long time ago and had tunnels underneath for people to escape and keep safe during WWII. By the time I went to school there, the tunnels were transformed into music practice rooms and art classrooms. It was also the coolest (temperature) part of the school with it being underground.

He didn't mention the best part about the rats of tobruk. The night time counter attacks by the australians that terrified the germans. The Aussies would send out tiny little squads at night to the german positions while most people except the watch were asleep. They would paint their faces black and crawl across no mans land at 2am completly silently. When they arrived at the german positions they would get within meters of the gremans then all sudenly jump up and make a primative growl and startle the germans on watch and rush them with knives before they could react to what was going on. Then they would kill all the sleeping soliders in the forward positions then retreat silently back into tobruk. They were so good at this because they were from the out back and were used to hunting at night where they had to be silent because it was way too hot to hunt in the day in the outback. Any surviving germans would be terrified saying ghosts or demons were appearing at night and killimg them. The aussies really had them shook

Australia is a independent nation and back then we were part of the Commonwealth of nations which comprises of 56 countries and 2.6 billion people and we still are today.
 My grandfather didn't have to go and fight as he worked for the railways which were an essential service. Back then the railway stations sold tickets and the daily ticket sales were recorded in huge log books, after 7 years this books were thrown away. He kept a few of the big old books and used them as scrap books, he pasted the newspaper reports each day into these big books and I still have them today. They make for very interesting reading.

German field marshall Rommel once said "If i had to take Hell, I'd use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to Hold it".  Pretty high praise when it's coming from the Enemy.

Australians are a true warrior race.

I don't think it was mentioned that Australia's population was only about 7 million during WWII and about a million men and women served in the armed forces that's a huge percentage. They were and still are our greatest generation.

My father was a rat of Tobruk ,my profile pic is from him as a vickers machine gunner, he survived 1009 days in combat during the whole of WWII

Australia became a Nation in 1901. We were part of the British Empire, which evolved into a commonwealth of nations formerly ruled by Britain. Technically, the King of England is still our head of state, but he has figurehead status only. We voted on becoming a republic and breaking with Britain entirely around 2000, but decided to stick with the status quo. We're kind of like Canada, but with desert instead of ice.

America is that guy who waits to find out who’s winning before joining the fight.