This Month in History – FEBRUARY

2^ND    1942    FIRST JAPANESE AIR ATTACK ON PORT MORESBY

3^RD    1915    TURKISH FORCES ATTACK THE SUEZ CANAL

5^TH    1917    CAPT H.W. MURRAY V.C. AY GUEUDECOURT FRANCE

6^TH    1941    6^TH DIVISION ENTER LIBYA

8^TH    1942    JAPANESE INVADE SINGAPORE

10^TH  1944    END OF JAPANESE RESISTANCE ON THE HUEN PENINSULA

11^TH  1951    CHINESE OFFENSIVE KOREA

12^TH  1940    FIRST CONVOY OF THE SECOND A.I.F. REACHES THE MIDDLE EAST

13^TH  1965    FIRST AUSTRALIAN S.A.S. SQUADRON ADVANCE PARTY DEPARTS FOR BORNEO

14^TH  1942    SINKING OF THE VYNER BROOKE AND THE BANKA ISLAND MASSACRE

15^TH  1942    THE FALL OF SINGAPORE

18^TH  1941    AUSTRALIAN TROOPS ARRIVE IN SINGAPORE

19^TH  1915    ALLIED WARSHIPS SHELL DARDENELLS

          1942    FIRST JAPANESE AIR RAID ON DARWIN

20^TH  1942    JAPANESE LANDED ON PORTUGUESE TIMOR

22^ND  1942    GENERAL DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR ORDERED TO LEAVE THE PHILIPPINES

23^RD  1956    1 SQUADRON RAAF BOMB COMMUNTIST CAMPS NEAR KUALAR LUMPUR DURING THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY

          1967    MAJOR P.J. BADCOE V.C. AT SOUTH VIETNAM

25^TH  1951    AUSTRALIANS CAPTURE HILL 614 KOREA

26^TH  1943    END OF FIGHTING AT WAU

27^TH  1942    HMAS HOBART DAMAGED BY AIR ATTACKS WEST JAVA SEA

28^TH  1991    GULF WAR ENDS