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Z Special Unit
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Author : Gavin Mortimer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-05-17
Z Special Unit written by Gavin Mortimer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-17 with History categories.
Based on recently released wartime files, interviews with surviving veterans and previously unpublished private papers, this is the incredible story of the origins and operations of a wartime special forces unit that defied the odds. Z Special Unit, one of the most intrepid but arguably the most unsung of Allied Special Forces of the Second World War waged a guerrilla war against Japan for two years in the south-west Pacific. On some of their 81 operations Z Special Unit slipped into enemy harbors in canoes and silently mined ships before vanishing into the night; on others they parachuted into the dense Borneo jungle to fight with headhunters against the Japanese and on one occasion they landed on an Indonesian island and smuggled out the pro-Allied sultan from under Japanese noses. The Japanese weren't the only adversary that Z Special Unit encountered in the brutal terrain of the Pacific. In the mango swamps of Borneo and the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea they were faced with venomous snakes, man-eating crocodiles, and deadly diseases. But it was the enemy soldiers who proved the most ruthless foe, beheading those Z Special Unit commandos who fell into their hands. “Z was a different operation to anything else,” recalls veteran Jack Tredrea. “You were never told what you were going to do. You weren't allowed to talk about what you were training for in case any of us were caught. You could have been tortured and divulged information." Drawing on veteran interviews as well as operational reports and recently declassified SOE files, Gavin Mortimer explores the incredible history of this remarkable special forces unit and the band of commandoes that defied the odds.
Semut
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Author : Christine Helliwell
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2024-04-02
Semut written by Christine Helliwell and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-02 with History categories.
March 1945. A handful of young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island's indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most have barely encountered Asian or indigenous people before, speak next to no Borneo languages, and know little about Dayaks, other than that they have been - and may still be - headhunters. They fear that on arrival the Dayaks will kill them or hand them over to the Japanese. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face. So begins the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret operation launched by the organisation codenamed Services Reconnaisance Department - popularly known as Z Special Unit - in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than one hundred Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on the operation's activities along two of Borneo's great rivers - the Baram and Rejang - the book provides a detailed military history of Semut II's and Semut III's brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese, and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation. But this is no ordinary history. Helliwell captures vividly the sounds, smells and tastes of the jungles into which the operatives are plunged, an environment so terrifying that many are unsure whether jungle or Japanese is the greater enemy. And she takes us into the lives and cavernous longhouses of the Dayaks on whom their survival depends. The result is a truly unique account of the encounter between two very different cultures amidst the savagery of the Pacific War.
The Official History Of Special Operations Australia Operations
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Author : C. A. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2011-07-05
The Official History Of Special Operations Australia Operations written by C. A. Brown and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-05 with History categories.
Popularly known today as Z Special Unit, or by the wartime cover names of Inter-Allied Services Department (ISD) and Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD), Special Operations Australia (SOA) was the Special Operations component of the US-led Allied Intelligence Bureau in the Pacific Theatre during the Second World War. From the secret files of Z Special Unit, and the second in a set of five volumes, Volume 2 - Operations describes almost two hundred separate "Z" Operations. Through the examination of this volume, the strategic role of the Special Operations - Australia organisation becomes apparent. Students of history will easily identify the ebb and flow of the Allied campaigns in the Pacific Theatre, with many of the operations of SOA being precursors to larger Allied offensives. Several serious blunders by SRD headquarters are also identified, one of which in particular had the capacity to compromise one of the greatest secrets of the Second World War and could have cost thousands of Allied lives.
They Came Unseen
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Author : Neil C. Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
They Came Unseen written by Neil C. Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Silent Feet
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Author : G. B. Courtney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Silent Feet written by G. B. Courtney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Australia categories.
Account of Australia's Z Special Unit's missions behind Japanese lines during the period 1942-45. It is a story about the courage, danger and initiative of the individuals and small groups who had little hope of help if their missions were unsuccessful. Contains an honour roll of members killed on active service, a bibliography and an index.
Z Special Unit S Secret War
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Author : Bob Long
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-09-01
Z Special Unit S Secret War written by Bob Long and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-01 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Record of the guerilla operations of Z special unit of the Australian armed forces in Borneo during WWII. Contains 16 chapters written by members of the unit who describe their experiences and their interaction with the local peoples in their fight against the Japanese invaders. Includes maps and a glossary.
S R D Technical Handbook
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Author : C. A. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-07-03
S R D Technical Handbook written by C. A. Brown and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-03 with History categories.
Popularly known today as “Z Special Unit”, or by the wartime cover names of Inter-Allied Services Department and Services Reconnaissance Department, Special Operations Australia, was the Special Operations section of the US-led Allied Intelligence Bureau in the Pacific Theatre during the Second World War. SOA conducted special and field intelligence operations into the Japanese-held areas to Australia's north. Some of these operations were stunning successes while others were tragic failures.Throughout the War in the Pacific, the specially-selected operatives of SOA proved themselves many times over on operations in the jungles and on the beaches of modern-day Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia. The “Z” Men were the best of the best, an elite force, prepared by some of the toughest training available and backed up by the best technology of the day. This book reproduces the SRD Technical Handbook, which was a top secret equipment supply catalogue published for internal use within SRD in February, 1945.While many of the items in the handbook are British SOE “special stores” shipped over from London, a great deal of developmental and experimental work was done by SRD's Technical Directorate at its technical research station at Mount Martha on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. A flick through these pages will show unusual items such as folding midget motorbikes, silenced pistols and machine guns, knuckle-knives, mini-submarines, booby trap devices and more. In fact, it contains just about everything a WWII-era commando or a spy required to successfully complete a secret mission. Lavishly illustrated with original wartime photographs, plans and diagrams, many never before seen publicly, the S.R.D. Technical Handbook is timely evidence that mankind is never as ingenious as he is during time of war.
Soldiers Of M Special Unit
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Author : Neil C. Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Soldiers Of M Special Unit written by Neil C. Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Soldiers categories.
The Elite
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Author : Leigh Neville
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-11-28
The Elite written by Leigh Neville and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-28 with History categories.
Using rare and previously unpublished images from around the world, The Elite: The A-Z of Modern Special Operations Forces is the ultimate guide to the secretive world of modern special operations forces. It sends the reader back in time to operations such as Eagle Claw in Iran and the recapture of the Iranian Embassy in London and then forward to recent operations against al-Shabaab and Islamic State. Entries also detail units ranging from the New Zealand SAS Group to the Polish GROM, and key individuals from Iraq counter-terrorism strategist General Stanley McChrystal to Victoria Cross recipient SASR Corporal Mark Donaldson. Answering questions such as how much the latest four-tube night vision goggles worn by the SEALs in Zero Dark Thirty cost, which pistol is most widely employed by special operators around the world and why, and if SOF still use HALO jumps, this book is the definitive single-source guide to the world's elite special forces.
The Official History Of Special Operations Australia
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Author : C. A. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-03-23
The Official History Of Special Operations Australia written by C. A. Brown and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-23 with History categories.
Popularly known today as Z Special Unit, or by the wartime cover names of Inter-Allied Services Department (ISD) and Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD), Special Operations Australia (SOA) was the Special Operations component of the US-led Allied Intelligence Bureau in the Pacific Theatre during the Second World War.The first in a set of five, Volume 1 – Organization tells the story of the establishment, organisation and function of SOA from its earliest days as a direct offshoot of the British Special Operations Executive, until the organisation's disbandment after a long, brutal and bloody conflict. Introduced by Special Operations and Espionage writer C.A. Brown, Volume 1 tells the story of the establishment of SOA and its fight for survival as a British-oriented SO organisation under American command, while giving the Imperial Japanese invaders a bloody nose all the way from New Guinea to Indochina. Covering in detail the major personalities, departments, directorates, training and operational bases of SOA, Volume 1 is a must-have for the research bookshelf of any serious student of the Secret War.