Z Special Unit Operation Starfish Lieutenant Lawrence Black. Front Page Time Magazine .
Operation starfish 3 men led by lieutenant Lawrence Black OAM travelled to Lombok in an American submarine, before spending over a months surveying the Japanese infested island behind enemy lines 2 returned alive, sadly the other 2 was beheaded by the Japanese. The mission was to find where all 5 1/2 inch diameter circumference German gun placements were, controlled by Japanese forces and used to take out allies submarines passing through Pacific to Indian Ocean.
Indonesia Lombok Strait connects the Indian Ocean to Java Sea between the famous tourist location, the Hindu island of Bali and the Muslim Lombok island of Indonesia, this Country is made up of many islands the mainland has the capital Jakarta and Gili Islands are on the Lombok side.
Australian special force Operation Starfish Lombok Indonesia ww2 secret mission lead by Australian Lieutenant Lawrence Black Z force commando . Lawrence Black was commissioned at a young age 21 and at the end of World War II when Japanese surrendered. Black lead the last operation for the Z force unit, destroying supply weapons and fuel at secret Z locations in the Indian Ocean, Black was known to his mates as Lawrie and was promoted in the field to Lieutenant, these days it can help to know someone come from money, helps to pay for your military officer Academy.
Image Australian special forces Z Special Unit Lieutenant Lawrence Black, who lead the operation to Indonesia code-name operation Starfish in ww2.
WWII Australian heroes memorial Plack is in Sydney’s most famous war memorial Gardens. Australian serial number NX105873 of special forces officer on this Plack lead commando operations against the Japanese.
Submarine USS Rock SS-274 Gato-class submarine under command of Robert A. Keating took the Lieutenant Lawrie Black and 3 Z men under his command on a very secret and dangerous mission, to Indonesia Lombok in operations starfish. The commander was noted for his brave deeds during ww2. The President of the United States of America presented the Navy Cross to Commander Robert Allen Keating, the second highest Navy award in the United States. Black was promoted in the field to Lieutenant, these days it can help to know someone or come from money to help hope pay for your military officer Academy.
Photo Australian special forces Z men Operation Rimau final minute before execution by Japanese military. My father’s brother Laurie Black Lieutenant in Z force unit pass this photo on to me. Laurie want to expose execution of Australian POW and allies.
Lawrie one of Australia’s great Z force unit heroes no wonder he was on the front page of Time magazine 18 July 1983 . Black was one of the first orders of Australia for his volunteer charitable hard work with the charity known as Legacy, that was set up to help weirdos of Australian soldiers that never returned home because of their death during ww2.
Australian special forces Z special unit knife of Lieutenant Lawrence Black, who lead operation starfish Lombok Indonesia.
Lawrie was offered a job in Australia and would go back to Japan to purchase toys from an American company, as the Americans was rebuilding war torn Japan. He had to move to the state of Victoria as he was previously in Queensland training at Fraser island. Lawrie’s best mate after the Second World War in Melbourne where his work took him was Dr Gardner a pilot in the Battle of Britain. State president RSL Bruce Ruction another Queenslander that moved to Victoria had a lot of respect for Lowrie’s courage intelligent bravery.
Rest in peace 18.12.2009 AGE 86 NX105873 Australian special forces Lieutenant Lawrie Black Z special unit. Soldier & business executive 18/7/1923 – 8-12-2009 died of heart attack at Sandringham hospital Melbourne Victoria Australia age 86.
Z force Unit Cold Starfish Operation.
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Australian special forces L Black receive one of the US submarine medal of ww2.
Know wonder Z special unit was set up in Australia in ww2 as a commando unit to work behind enemy lines, to gather intelligence and commando attacks of the enemy the Japanese. Australian town’s attacked bomb buy air attacked by the Japanese in ww2. In the State of Queensland far north Townsville. Northern Territory Katherine, Western Australia Wyndham, Derby, Broome and Port Hedland. In the state of New South Wales the capital Sydney and Newcastle were attacked by miniature Japanese submarines. Darwin would be attacked by Japanese planes and bombed by far the most a total of 64 times.
Lots of information from Indonesia expat about this very secret mission and why they had to take out the big guns that the Japanese head placed on Lombok to control the straight between Bali and Indonesia. This location now is very famous surfing location, possibly the longest wave in the world where now the Australians play.About the mission in ww2 information at website.
Lawrie Black Lead The Operation .
L Black worked with many of the American submarine commanders, many of these US submarines were in the battle of the Coral Sea in ww2, this sea battle occurred well down past Australian northern city of Cairns which is not far from Townsville that has a very large Australian military base. The battle was off sure from the town of Cardwell and was the first battle of this kind anywhere in the world. It was a Navy battle the Japanese had an invasion force consistent of many Navy ships, including aircraft carriers and submarines and convoy that protected their aircraft carriers. The American and Australians had the same type of navy force, the 2 huge armadas with modern aircraft carriers faced off at this bloody location in the Australian Coral Sea the great barrier reef where about 150 military air craft was shot down while protecting their fleets. The Allies were able to turn back the Japanese invasion force and today there is a memorial in the town of Cardwell in the northern part of the state of Queensland Australia.
Australian special forces ww2 Heroes that survived the war, Lowrie always kept with him he’s lucky Australian opal gemstone on every mission.
The article above headline Lawrie Black might have just made it into the Guinness book of records for the first man in Australia to organise reunion of people who have never met. About 3 month after operation Starfish the Japanese surrendered to the allies.
There was also a second military mission named operation starfish ww2, starfish Prime was a US nuclear test joint effort AEC with Defense Atomic agency on July 9, 1962. The test was in outer space. They say the light flash made by the nuclear test was visual even through heavy cloud about 1,400 km away from Honolulu.
Australia’s highest military award the VC or Victoria Cross, awarded to Australian’s in all wars their soldiers have served in. For valour courage and bravery in the face of the enemy. Awarded to Australian soldiers of any rank or civilians under military command Victoria Cross .
Australian special forces Z special unit reunion photograph is of L Black, Retired old Z special unit Lieutenant.
Lucky Black he was called as his military flight was delayed going to Perth where the Operation Jaywick mission left for Singapore, so Lawrence was sent elsewhere and mission Operation Jaywick. Black always denied in public he had a lucky charm, but privately he said his dad passed on to him one opal pendant so he always had this with him, the Australian national gemstone the Opal. Lawrence was named after the famous ww1 hero Lawrence of Arabia, as Black’s father served in ww1 Light horse and camel core in the Middle East and had some connection to Lawrence of Arabia.
About Australia World War 2 Or World War II.
Australians World War II and military from many countries, tend’s of millions seen combat in different regions of the world, soldiers not only from English speaking countries fort the Nazis and Japanese. People killed in this war figures are as low as 72 million and possibly over 100 million died in world War II. United Kingdom of Great Britain 60,595 civilians were killed. British the greatest Nazi hunters fighters in the world, about 86 seriously injured and soldiers that died in action about 384,000.
Allied Soviet Union about 5 million died 8 million soldiers and most seen action and loss killed in action by far the most men out of all the allies.
About 405 Americans killed and 6700 wounded. 16,000,000 Americans mostly stayed out of the early years of Nazi Germany, but the 16 million later was involved in the Pacific against the Japanese, because the Japanese attacked the state of Hawaii. The invading Germans of Germany about 13 million and thanks Christ they were beaten pay dearly in lives lost. The Japan enter later on and became allies of the German Nazi military, Japan about 6 million served in World War II and they pay dearly in life’s lost to over 2 million died.
Australians in WWII fort the nazi allies to the Italian military, Italy about 300,000 military died. ww2 Canada about 45,000 military died. Chinese could be up to 4,000,000 counting their civilians also. Czechoslovakia and 25,000. Denmark about 2000. Where is New Zealand Pacific Asia and 12,000 died in ww2, population was under 2 million at the time. Military personnel from India maybe up to as much as 2.5 million died. Military personnel from South Africa about 12,000 soldiers died. In Korea about 450,000 citizens died by Japanese hand.
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