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Operation Scorpion (World War Two)

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Operation Scorpion was a proposed operation in World War Two by Australia's Z Special Unit. [1]

9 relations: Magnetic Island, Operation Jaywick, Operation Rimau, Robert Page (soldier), Thomas Blamey, Townsville, Vulcano, World War II, Z Special Unit.

Magnetic Island

Magnetic Island is an island offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

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Operation Jaywick

Operation Jaywick was a special operation undertaken in World War II.

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Operation Rimau

Operation Rimau was an attack on Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, carried out by an Allied commando unit Z Special Unit, during World War II using Australian built Hoehn military MKIII folboats.

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Robert Page (soldier)

Robert Charles Page, DSO (21 July 1920 – 7 July 1945) was an Australian soldier who was a member of Z Special Unit during the Second World War.

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Thomas Blamey

Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, (24 January 188427 May 1951) was an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars, and the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal.

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Townsville

Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Vulcano

Vulcano (Vurcanu) is a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about north of Sicily and located at the southernmost end of the eight Aeolian Islands.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Z Special Unit

Z Special Unit—also known as Special Operations Executive (SOE), Special Operations Australia (SOA) or the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD)—was a joint Allied special forces unit formed during the Second World War to operate behind Japanese lines in South East Asia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Scorpion_(World_War_Two)

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