| VASEY | Who commanded the 7th Division of Australian troops in New Guinea fighting the Japanese in the Kokoda Track campaign during World War II? (5) |
| NISEI | Little Eric is in with the Japanese in the USA (5) |
| ROMAJI | System of writing Japanese in the Roman alphabet (6) |
| BALI | Invaded by the Dutch in 1908 and the Japanese in WWII this Sunda island was absorbed into the new nation of Indonesia |
| ANZAC | - biscuit; flapjack-like food named in honour of the New Zealand and Australian troops who served du |
| DRAKE | Sea captain and explorer who commanded the Golden Hind on the first English circumnavigation of the Earth (5) |
| SCIPIO | Roman general who commanded the Roman invasion of Carthage in the Second Punic War (6) |
| INA | A force recruited from Indian PoWs of the Japanese in 1942 to fight against British rule (abbrev.) (3) |
| PEARL | -- Harbor, site of a U.S. naval base attacked by the Japanese in 1941 (5) |
| LONGTAN | What was the most famous battle in the Vietnam War involving Australian troops? (4,3) |
| JOHNMOORE | Glasgow-born soldier, mortally wounded in Coruna, who commanded the English army in Spain from 1808- |
| NILSSON | Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, who commanded the stage at Beyreuth as the leading Wagnerian soprano |
| ARMSTRONG | Astronaut who commanded the space mission that enabled him to become the first person to walk on the moon (9) |
| AGRIPPA | Marcus Vipsanius -; son-in-law of Augustus who commanded the fleet that defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra (7) |
| ORDE | ___ Wingate. British military officer who commanded the Chindits in the Second World War (4) |
| KOREA | Robert Menzies committed Australian troops and aircraft to support United Nations forces in this Asian country in 1950 |
| THECRUELSEA | 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat following the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II |
| WOLFE | James, soldier who commanded the British capture of Quebec in 1759 (5) |
| AXIS | The alliance of forces fighting the Allies in the Second World War (4) |
| FRENCH | John ?, field marshal who commanded the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium from 1914-15 (6) |
