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[[Image:Work fight or perish (RC02370).jpg|thumb|An Australian Government leaflet bearing the likeness and signature of Prime Minister [[John Curtin]], telling Australians that they must make sacrifices for the war effort.]]
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==Australians in other theatres==
[[Image:Mission 204 (P00763001).jpg|thumb|Four members of the Australian contingent to Mission 204 in [[Yunnan Province]], China, during 1942]]

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In addition to the major deployments, Australian military units and individual Australian service personnel served in other theatres of the war.

Australia played a minor role in the British-led campaigns against [[Vichy French]] colonial possessions in Africa. In late September 1940 HMAS ''Australia'' took part in the [[Battle of Dakar|British and Free French attempt to capture Dakar]] in which she sank a Vichy French destroyer. The Australian government was not informed of the cruiser&(contracted; show full)

In addition to operational deployments, thousands of Australian airmen were trained overseas under the [[Empire Air Training Scheme]]. More than 10,000 were trained in [[Canada]] and 674 in [[Rhodesia]]. While many of these these men were posted to Australian [[Article XV squadron
s]]s, the majority served within British and other Dominion squadrons.<ref>Clark (2003)</ref>

==Australian intelligence and special forces==
[[Image:21henryst44.jpg|thumb|Central Bureau's headquarters building at Ascot in Brisbane]]
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* {{cite book |last=Frame |first=Tom |authorlink=Tom Frame (bishop) |coauthors= |title=No Pleasure Cruise. The Story of the Royal Australian Navy |year=2004 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=Sydney |isbn=1741142334 }}
* {{cite book |last=Grey |first=Jeffrey |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=A Military History of Australia |year=1999 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=0521644836 }}

* {{cite book |last=Grey |first=Jeffrey |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Australian Army |edition=1st edition |series=The Australian centenary history of defence |year=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Melbourne |isbn=0195541146 }}⏎
* {{cite book |last=Hasluck |first=Paul |authorlink=Paul Hasluck |coauthors= |title=The Government and the People 1942-1945 |url=http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/chapter.asp?volume=31 |series=Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 4 – Civil |year=1970 |publisher=Australian War Memorial |location=Canberra |isbn= 6429367X }}
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* [http://www.raaf.gov.au/history/airforce_history/WW2.htm RAAF in World War II - RAAF website]
* {{cite web |url=http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/index.html |title=Australia's War 1939—1945 |accessdate= |author= |date= |work= |publisher=[[Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australia)|Department of Veterans' Affairs]] }}

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