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Podcast: The Cove Podcast
Episode: Small Boats and Brave Men – Dr Tom Richardson PhD
Description: ‘[T]hat’s a brigade-sized amphibious operation planned and executed in a week …’
In this week’s episode, we dive into the Huon Peninsula Campaign of 1943–44 and examine how the Australian 9th Division used littoral operations to outpace and outfight the Japanese. Our guest this week – Dr Tom Richardson PhD – is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales – Canberra. He specialises in military history and amongst his many publications is an article called Small Boats and Brave Men, published in the Australian Army Journal.
Following the fall of Lae in September 1943, the Australians turned...