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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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As most Australian units in the Mediterranean were redeployed to the Pacific during 1942 Australia played only a small role in the [[Italian Campaign (World War II)|Italian Campaign]]. The RAN returned to the Mediterranean between May and November 1943 when eight [[Bathurst class corvette]]s took part in the [[Allied invasion of Sicily]] and escorted convoys in the western Mediterranean.<ref>Coates (2006). Pages 192-195.</ref> 
Several RAAF squadrons andTwo [[Kittyhawk]] fighter squadrons, [[No. 3 Squadron RAAF|No. 3 Squadron]] and [[No. 450 Squadron RAAF|No. 450 Squadron]], along with [[No. 1 Air Ambulance Unit RAAF|No. 1 Air Ambulance Unit]] also supported Allied operations in Italy until the end of the war. RAAF squadrons also supported [[Operation Dragoon|the Allied invasion of southern France in August 1944]].These units were unusual in that they were truly Australian, having arrived in the Middle East with Australian ground crews. Four RAAF light bomber squadrons also participated. Two RAAF squadrons, [[No. 451 Squadron RAAF|No. 451 Squadron]] ([[Supermarine Spitfire|Spitfires]]) and [[No. 458 Squadron RAAF|No. 458 Squadron]] ([[Vickers Wellington|Wellingtons)]] supported [[Operation Dragoon|the Allied invasion of southern France in August 1944]]. Four Australian squadrons supported operations in the eastern Mediterranean.<ref>Long, ''The Six Years' War'', pp. 374-384</ref>

==Britain and Western Europe==
[[Image:10 Sqn (AWM 042259).jpg|thumb|A No. 10 Squadron Sunderland departing for a patrol over the Atlantic in 1941]]
===The defence of Britain===

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