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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.]]
(contracted; show full)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, (1973), 
pp.Pages 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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