Switch to guerrilla tactics By the end of February, the Japanese were in control of most of Dutch Timor and the area round Dili in the north-east. The Australians remained in the island’s south and east, however. The 2/2nd Independent Company was trained for stay-behind operations and had its own engineers and signallers, although it …
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First generation ‘modern’ monoplane fighters – The British Vickers Type 279 Venom
A history of the Vickers Type 279 Venom, the high performance prototype monoplane fighter with eight fixed forward-firing machine guns, designed in the 1930s.