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Lark Force - 5/13/2021 12:42:49 AM

nowherman

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Shouldn't Lark Force at Rabaul be Australian? Oversight or is there an in game reason why they are UK? Probably not a big deal since they usually don't survive past the first turn anyway. Also does anyone know what the UK garrison at Tonga is supposed to represent? I didn't know there were any troops at or around Tonga until US forces arrived in early May, 42. The UK 114 Gar is there in both the 41 and 42 campaign starts.

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RE: Lark Force - 5/13/2021 6:03:41 AM

tyronec

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I don't know anything about the Pacific war in the islands, but Tonga was the only country in the region that wasn't colonised so I wouldn't have expected it to have a 'foreign' garrison.

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RE: Lark Force - 5/13/2021 11:21:34 AM

Nikel

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The Lark Force was australian:

"The port was protected by a battalion of Australian infantry (2/22 Battalion, "Lark Force", numbering about 1390 men), two 6" (152mm) coastal guns at the tip of Crater Peninsula, two obsolete antiaircraft guns (one with a cracked breach) and a few obsolescent aircraft of 24 Squadron � all the Australians could spare."

http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/R/a/Rabaul.htm

Found the following in Rottman's "World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-military Study", regarding Tonga.

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In 1939 the country raised the Tonga Defence Force, which grew to 2,000 regulars incorporated into the 16th New Zealand Brigade Group, plus a 2,000-man home guard trained and equipped by New Zealand

In WitP-AE there are no troops in Tonga Dec 8 1941? Nobody is perfect