American Couple Reacts: Australia's Z Special Unit Explained! FIRST TIME REACTION! Insanely TOUGH!!
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- American Couple Reacts: Australia's Z Special Unit Explained! FIRST TIME REACTION! Insanely TOUGH!! As you know we love learning about allied militaries. One thing we really like learning about are the special, secret forces, special ops! This is Australia's Z Special Unit from World War 2! These incredibly brave and fierce warriors were a massive force to be reckoned with! What they had to do, what they did do and how some survived is almost unbelievable! Join us as we learn about this special unit that really gave the Japanese a very serious fright! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below...
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As you know we love learning about allied militaries. One thing we really like learning about are the special, secret forces, special ops! This is Australia's Z Special Unit from World War 2! These incredibly brave and fierce warriors were a massive force to be reckoned with! What they had to do, what they did do and how some survived is almost unbelievable! Join us as we learn about this special unit that really gave the Japanese a very serious fright! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
There was a news article out in June to say they are going to recreate the z special unit to tackle increasing threat of China in the indo pacific
Thank you for this video! 🇦🇺👍
The training of Australian troops is above and beyond, always improving and improvising!
Most Americans do not know about Australia involvement in WW2 because America lied about Australia involvement and said we mainly just did mop up missions or handled the POW'S.
Sad your country dissrespected the memories and loses of brave Aussies. I still habe many arguments with Yanks of how Aussies did so much more, we were the main ground forces in Pacific until German defeat late 1933- early 44.
As a British citizen i am honoured to have the Australians as allies , they have proved themselves time and time again to be a great nation and friend to their allies , what a great country .
Same here Zero.
Back at ya mate
Thank you mates! 😄🇦🇺
Thank you 🇦🇺🇬🇧
Always have always be at your side whenever we are required, as a retired military man I was proud to stand beside british soldiers in times of trouble.🦘🦘💖💖
As an Aussie Veteran just want to send condolences to US team for the loss of the 3 Marines in the NT RIP
Here in Western Australia there was a Japanese Australian , Jack Sue , who ran a local dive shop here in Perth , we found out in the 80s his story , he was one of the Z force survivors who paddled into Singapore and also was in Borneo , just a quiet man a diving expert running his dive school , but man how some people can go above and beyond in a crisis . Amazing man , amazing story
I'm proud of my uncle who was an Australian Commando in New Guinea. Not a member of Z Force, he occasionally mentioned them with great reverence. He himself had something of a reputation. He would recite, in loud voice, Shakespeare, from his foxhole which he said put fear into the Japanese more than a stray bullet.
Thank you girls for giving our heroes respect and love they so richly deserve
Z force was the precursor to the SAS. I served for 17 years in the Aust infantry and the SAS were greatly admired by all of us . They really are the best of the best . Their most admirable abilities are that they just never give up and push themselves through extreme hardship. Incredibly physically fit , extremely highly trained and able to think outside the box they are the first forces the US calls upon when ever there's a scrap on. They are comparable to your Delta or Seal teams but we get by with less specialist equipment , which can be good as they dont need to rely on it. To be so far from help in hostile areas you would have to have really big kahunas.
It was a precursor to the Australian SAS. The UK SAS was first formed 7 months prior to the Z Special Unit.
Balls of tungsten .
@@andywilliams7323 Yes I meant the Aussie SAS . They are all men to admire though.
Aussie combat vet
Thank you ladies for reacting to the unit my great uncle served in,the unit was not officially declassified & acknowledged until the early eighties,my time in service pales in comparison to the earlier veterans🇦🇺🇺🇸
Oh wow! Thank YOU for your service and your great Uncle was a badass!! And your time in the service matters the same as all other soldiers, past, present & future! 🫡
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Aussie combat vet
The movie attack force Z has a very young Mel Gibson but isn’t based on any actual mission,
The movie The Heroes is based on the first Singapore raid and it has a young Jason Donovan 🇦🇺🇺🇸
@@2eREPPARA Thank you! Will have to check them out!
There is also another movie the highest honor around the same operation and a documentary operation jaywick.
I remember the heroes movie from when I was a kid.
@@2eREPPARA Heroes was a miniseries I think and I have been trying to get it on any sort of format for years, if you have any idea how I can get a copy could you please let me know.
One of the Z Force commandos who was on the Krait mission to Singapore was Jack Sue. He also survived the war and became a diving specialist and then having Perth' s well known diving academy to teach SCUBA diving. After 1980 or so, he and the others were finally able to reveal their stories about the Z Force missions through the war. so yes, I did know some of these stories. Some other interesting guys were the "coast watchers". These were guys secretly inserted on to enemy occupied territory throughout the south Pacific islands. They would observe enemy movements and report via radio the information. They were always being hunted of course, and some did not survive.
I’m so proud so say my great Uncle was a member of Z special Unit. THANK YOU for making this video and for your kind words about the unit.
Unfortunately I can’t give you any information as Uncle didn’t really speak about what happened during his time in the unit. At first because of the secrecy contract and then later I think had emotionally shut down. I believe it was quite traumatic for him from what older members of my family have said.
On a personal level you might find interesting though. My Uncle served in to Borneo towards the end of the was with his unit and part of his job was training civilians to help fight the Japanese and there was two women who had disguised themselves as men to help fight. It didn’t take Uncle long to realise that they were women and also sisters. They have both passed away now but lived long and good lived and one of them became my Great Aunt. Yes, my Great Uncle went back after the war ended and they got married.
I knew someone who was a RAN Lt. and served as second in command of the Krait during WW2 - he was not involved with the attack on Singapore. He sadly passed away before the secrecy was lifted so he never spoke of any operations but did say a little about the Krait and i have learned some more since. Krait was used for some 80 or so missions, some were transporting or supplying the coast watchers who provided vital intel on enemy movements etc.
Folding kayaks are a plugged together wooden framework, with a waterproofed canvas outer skin. When packed the entire kayak is a small sack similar to a hiking tent bag, quite easy to carry, or strain like a backpack. Setting up or packing away can be mere mintues. If needing to make a emergency getaway, a few rocks in the pack and it all can be sunk into the water. In some cases even be retrieved later and used again.
My father, from his teen years had such a kayak, which in Germany he used to travel many rivers, like the Rhein, Near, Danube to as far as Yugoslavia, and various lakes including Switzerland and Austria.
In my younger years of 1950s on holidays he took me and my sister on some lakes and rivers. It had one feature I think the Australian Z Force did not have. It had an add on outrigger, a sail on short mast, and a dropboard/keel and thus became a small sailing craft, travel distances without needing much paddling. Also a pair of footpedals and cables operated a small rear rudder, meaning a bit of independant steering, not fully reliant on paddling to direct the travel direction, especially usefull in some rivers, that can have large whirlpool vortex effects due to deep rock structures in the river bottom. Less effective of course in rapids, where paddles are indispensable for direction control. Such rudder would have been useful on ocean travel a Z Force did with tidal and ocean currents, while needing paddles only to maintain forward speed. To go 100 miles would have been eased by such small sail, but in covert travel the sail would be a problem for making detection too probable, the sail being to obvious to observation.
Z Special Unit was predominantly made up of Australian personnel, but not exclusively, It also had New Zealand, British, Dutch, and some Timorese and Indonesian personnel in its ranks.
way to represent brother. 🙂
Australia probably had the first of all "special ops" corpses in the Boer War, in South Africa. Thus the legend of Breaker Morant. They were under British Command, they were selected for the climatic conditions in Australia, and the toughness of the soldiers was known by the British. This secret campaign was to sabotage an operative of the Boers in South Africa. One of which means some invasive military destruction of civilian property. This was the Australian legend of Breaker Morant. So the operative conducted these direct secret orders for London, the reason why they were there in the first place. It was a nasty campaign killing civilians. The Boers bitterly accused Britain of war atrocities. So what did Britain do? They denied any knowledge of it, and blamed "some rogue Australian soldiers of low character (implying Australians can be assumed low in character with Convict background, and innuendo of criminality". So the war hero that was successful in the campaign for the British was betrayed by the overlords, and he was shot by firing squad, his garrison was shamed by the British Empire as lowlife criminals. The Empire, Britain, has never apologized for this betrayal, and an insult to the Australian military, or the Australian Character. We now know the term "special ops", and this would never happen under international war standards. When will Australia get an apology? Will Prince Charles do it? th-cam.com/video/q8-CsE5HgRE/w-d-xo.html
Special forces team is now know as the SAS and located in Western Australia
Thank you for showing and sharing this with us. I look forward to learning more.
Hi Ladies! Great vid! My grandfather was based somewhere in the Port Moresby area of PNG as some type of ground to air machine gunner trying to bring down Japanese aircraft. He never spoke a word about the war, however my grandmother did show me a ring he gave her that he told her he salvaged from a Japanese aircraft they shot down. Apparently he used a small file or nail file of sorts to smooth it down and shape into the ring he gave her upon his return. Thay are both at rest now, but my uncle still has the ring. We recently his service record amongst my grandmother's belongings, but a lot is redacted and cant be read.
Hi Natasha and Debbie. I have never heard of this Unit! I'm learning more about Australia from youtubers like yourselves! So keep up the good work ladies OX
As already mentioned, "Spy Force" is a 1971-3 Australian TV series based on the Z Special Unit actions in WWII. As a result they were reasonably well-known in Australia at the time. Since forgotten, I suspect.
Also as mentioned. there are a couple of 1982 Australian movies: Attack Force Z and The Highest Honour (1982). The first starred the very young and then unknown Mel Gibson and Sam Neil; the second various Australian actors less well-known outside Australia.
The TV series isn't too bad but I'd not recommend either movie.
Another great video, it makes me think about my grandad. He was British and wasn't in any special units but did fight in Borneo and would never talk about it. Must have been bad out there.
Yes really brutal, the enemy were completely ruthless and the terrain impossible! 😪
Agas was a recon mission, trying to learn about the POW's (Australian, British and other Commonwealth soldiers) in the camp at Sandakan. That POW camp had the highest death rate of any POW camp in all of WW2 at 99.6%. 2,400ish went in, and only 6 survived. I read Paul Ham's book on it some years back and had to keep putting it down due to how horrifically the POWs were treated.
There’s a fairly decent, if somewhat dated, fictionalised TV series about Z Force called “Spyforce”. Made in Australia in the late 60s or early 70s,and starring a very young Jack Thomson,
Back in the old days of black & white TV we had a weekly show Z Force , it's been advertised on TV as a boxed DVD set
Wow I have never heard of them before. These were a special type of men. So interesting I can see you enjoyed this one. Well done 👏👏👏There was a British film called cockleshell heroes xx
Hi from Australia - there was a TV miniseries in 1989 about Z Unit raid on Singapore called ‘The Heroes’, and a sequel miniseries in 1992, ‘Heroes II: The Return’; just in case your interested
These operations were basically suicide missions. My father fought against the Japanese in New Guinea in WW2. What the Japanese did was brutal and despicable. He never wanted to talk about the war. The Coast Watchers were also brave individuals operating behind enemy lines. If the Japanese caught them they beheaded them.
😅come to Sydney and you can tour the Krait. She's at the Maritime museum in Darling Harbour.
The movie was Attack Force Z, starring a young Mel Gibson.
Great video love watching these this one was epic my hat comes off to the z specials l love to see more like this or the SAS 😊 love and respect to the Australians and other service men and women around the world ❤
You can tell that the Aussies are of British blood.
They're just as bloody minded and tough as an overcooked steak.
It's great that all us allies share our skills and knowledge to fight a common foe.
Their ancesters were dumped by us Brits in one of the most inhospitable places on the planet and they turned it into an amazing and well organised country.
I have so much love and respect for our cousins down under, even if they do call us poms. 😂
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@@julesmarwell8023 😂😂😂👍
@@julesmarwell8023 I spent 7 weeks in Perth. My uncle immigrated over there in 1946 and my oldest brother went over in 1967.
Did I love the country?
Did I love the people?
Bloody oath.
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Thanks for sharing and reacting to this (proud Aunty of a serving Commando)
As a son of WW 2 Solider and a reli of the this mission he never spoke of the part of his life my Father told me of this after his passing that was in the mid to late 70 s
If you want some more Anzac heroics check out stories on " The Rats Of Tubruk" something my great uncle and great grandfather was apart of 🤙
My father Dave Roberts was a long distance sniper with the Australian special air service regiment in Swanbourne perth Australia and he was a instructor at special forces special forces response operations in tully Queensland Australia from 1969 to 1974 and in Darwin during severe cyclone Tracy Dec 1974 and I was born year after the Vietnam war 1976
Two lovely ladies god bless from Glasgow scotland
I used to watch a weekly TV show I think starring Jack Thompson called Spy Force.
Yes you are correct Debbie 😊
My uncle was in Z force! But no one knew a thing about his service, only oral story told later was secret mission in North west Australia, intelligence sources possible reconnaissance by Japanese, where he found evidence of Japanese soldiers landings, saying that having landed in remote areas of no military use, they found a discarded raft and tracks! The other was in Japanese occupied island of Rabaul hiding in the jungle providing intelligence and one unbelievable thing was he was within 20 feet of a Japanese Base watching! 😱🇦🇺 National archives many documents have been accessed , but many still kept secret!
There was a TV miniseries made about the Krait. Nerve racking indeed.
You might be interested in the Australian Coast watchers who were landed (Alone) at night by submarine onto islands around Guadalcanal with some supplies, binoculars and a hand crank radio to stay on the move and report any passing Japanese warships to HQ whilst being hunted by enemy patrols looking to kill them. I can't imagine the personal fortitude required to do this.
From memory some Dutch coast watchers were also spying on the Japs.
My father was in Zed force in Borneo. He was an explosive expert. I was a signaller during the Vietnam war and signed a non disclosure on retirement. My dad never talked about what he did; ever. Nor have I. Even though what I did was top secret communication as opposed to active war. Please don't ask.
Hi ladies, I am a Brit who hadn't heard of the z force before however I have just been reading a book about the foundations of the SBS during WW2 one of its operations being immortalised in the film Cockleshell Heroes which may be what Debbie is thinking of. Also you might want to take a look at a couple of operations involving involving X craft which were mini submarines. The film Above us the waves shows one of their exploits. Please drop me a line if you wish to know more.
Z Force and Sparrow Force also deployed to Timor and worked with the Timorese people. Although it wasn't as successful they held out for about a year before they were picked up by a US Submarine. The help the Timorese people provided to the Australians was finally repaid in 1999 when East Timor had a vote to decide their independence from Indonesia and the subsequent fighting that broke out between militia groups loyal to Indonesian government and the citizens. I did two deployments there. Australia's contribution to conflicts and peacekeeping operations around the world often get overshadowed and in someways gets mixed in with calling us either "British forces" or "Commonwealth forces" especially in WWII documentaries. Most Americans don't know we were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan let alone to Vietnam or Korea So thank you for your videos covering us Aussies 🙂
Hi
There is a movie Loosely based on these operations and here's a copy of the actors and director names - Starring Mel Gibson and Sam Neill.
ATTACK FORCE Z (ZED)
Directed by Tim Burstall
Screenplay by Roger Marshall
Produced by Lee Robinson
Starring
John Phillip Law
Mel Gibson
Sam Neill
Chris Haywood
John Waters
Koo Chuan Hsiung
Sylvia Chang
O Ti
Cinematography Hung-Chung Lin
Edited by David Stiven
Music by Eric Jupp
Production
companies
John McCallum Productions
Central Motion Picture Corporation
Distributed by Roadshow Film Distributors
Release date
June 1, 1982
Running time 93 minutes
Countries
Australia
Taiwan
Language English
Box office $88,000 (Australia)
Movie - 60’s - American film - not based on the Krait exactly but with elements of the Krait story - its a comedy - “The Wackiest Ship in the Army”. My dad loved this film
Which brings me to apologise to you both. Told you back with your ANZAC video that my father served in the American Navy. Since then I have found out that the Small Ships were, in fact, the U.S. Army Small Ships. Based in Australia ports, crewed by Australian. . . Wait for it. . . volunteers. The men who volunteered were not suitable for regular service.
My dad wore a hearing aid, which I thought he must have got either before or after the war. Not so: that was the kind of thing that disqualified these guys from regular services. These guys really wanted to fight, and this service - the Small Ships - was gifted to these guys by you Americans. I’m even prouder of my dad, and I’m thankful to the U.S.A. giving him the opportunity to serve both our countries. Attack Force Z, is a movie - thanks Deb,❤.
Think we use ZED instead of ZEE as it sounds too close to the letter C when pronounced. Anywhoo, any Australian familiar with our military in WWII will be familiar with Z Force and their exploits. I am sure there has been a movie or mini series made about them in Australia.
As you say at the beginning, so grateful to this generation. My father was a WWII vet badly wounded in New Guinea fighting the Japanese at Milne Bay airfield hand to hand as the Japanese attempted to overrun it. Eventually recovered and was sent to Singapore after the war to help repatriate the Australian PoW's who had been abused and starved for 3.5 years. Because of men and women like him I have never known the horrors of war. As a child still remember his nightmares and yelling in his sleep at night.
Thanks to the Americans, Australia was saved from invasion in WWII. We have fought side by side since 1917 in WWI when American soldiers first fought under the command of an Australian general (an Australian legend Sir John Monash). General Pershing was so impressed he allowed 50,000 American soldiers to be commanded by Monash in the next battle that effectively broke the German lines and ended the war.
Cheers girls love the channel.
Jack Thomson was the lead in the TV show in the late 70 early 80
You pair rock born and bred in Australia but have travelled keep up the excellent work
Have you guys looked at the Matildas yet? They're the national women's soccer team and they're adored by everyone. At the world cup that has just finished, they broke every TV ratings record in Australia. They....are....amaaaazing. Megan Rapinoe wishes more than anything, that she had a chance to be a Matilda. 😂😂😂😂😂
Oh PLEASE take Megan!!!! 😆
for context when we made the semi finals last week against England 11.4 million out of a population of 26 million watched them play. Nothing has come remotely close to those figures.
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In 1981 Mel Gibson and Sam Neil starred in the Movie "Attack Force Z ( ZED!)" Bad movie but worth a watch.
The story of the Australian coastwatchers in New Guinea during the second world war is also interesting.
Another Australian War story you should look at is Kokoda it will give you another insight into how our soldiers and the local Png natives help in stopping the Japanese
Once again, here I am learning more about my own country from foreigners. Haha. What badasses. Send them out and they start creating their own little armies.
You need to see the film Cockleshell Heroes, with Jose Ferer. It's about a raid using canoes
It’s been 35 years and I still don’t talk about what I used to do in the military.
The folding kayaks were a good idea, but they didn't live up to the plan.
I saw a ship model of the krait and it was a Japanese pearl lugger during the commando raid of operation jaywick in 1942
Please look at the Battle of Long Tan (Vietnam) which also was in a recent movie
Krait still exists at the national australian maritme museam in sydney
I knew Jack Sue. He ran a dive shop in Perth,, West Australia.
Among items NOT mentioned, all these men were volunteers. Among major contributions were the information on Japanese troop numbers, locations , troop and ship movements and such. Many US convoys were saved by intelligence and information supplied by observers of both Z Force operating within occupied areas and other Australian troops also sent, often one person alone, in to middle of dense Japanese troop occupied zones to gather intelligence. Lots of sabotage too, fuel, food, munitions, vehicles, harbours, roads bridges, anything to make the war difficult for Japanese.
The Australian efforts through Pacific Islands and SE Asia, can be regarded as essential to defeat of Japanese in that area. Like the US, Australia sacrificed many lives to achieve the ultimate win, after Europe basically turned their back on and abandoned the area.
Australia can be proud of the Z Force and other troop contributions in this area.
It is noteworthy that Australia still has some of the leading "jungle" warfare abilities, and is regularly training troops of US and other countries of SE Asia.
In Vietnam war Australia provided much on the ground support, where US became very dependant on hardware, helicopters, jets and bombs. Had US reacted to Australian discovery and reports of extensive Vietcong tunnels and troop gathering in the underground nearing Saigon, and US had bombed these tunnels, the final fall of and defeat of South Vietnam may have been prevented. I could have been sent into Vietnam war, as that war used for first time conscript soldiers, all prior wars were volunteer Australian soldiers only. If your birthrate marble got pulled you had to serve. BUT to serve in Vietnam you did need to 'volunteer'. Classic army, "one step forward to volunteer", and some step back, your in. Actually fail to step up, and the rest of your conscripted time was made a misery. One school friend died in Vietnam, two serious wounded, one of which partly crippled. I was in tertiary Engineering degree study, and had a conscription deferral to finish studies. A government change in 1972, cancelled conscription so I avoided serving. Many protests anti Vietnam war were active, many took "conscientious objection" clause and served time in civil duties, I would have failed in that excuse, having applied to join Airforce prior to commencing engineering studies.
watch Attack Force Z movie (1982) is based on Australian - Japan world war 2 the film ,good video an informative
I was aware of the krait attack. Not commonly known but has been published in books.
there is a movie i think its called krait i think craig Mcglockon in it
G'day girls another great vid. In the early 70's there was a tv series based on Z Special unit called Spyforce starring Jack Thompson and various other Aussie TV stars of the time. It was actually co-produced by the Nine Network and Paramount Pictures. It was one of the best produced Aussie shows at the time because of the input from the U.S producers. It was my favourite tv show as a kid.
I believe the word Natasha was looking for was appropriate.
Once again, you ladies are teaching us Aussies, Aussie history!!
Episode 2 - Australia’s Battle of Beersheba
If you girls would like to hear more about how true allies treat each other. Then look at US Marine general delivers speech honoring the ADF. Then look at female Australian solder Vs male US marine contest. I think you might find this very interesting enjoy girls.
As a young teenager, I did a scuba diving trip in the mid 1970’s with “Jack Sue” who was a Z Force operative, who survived WW2 & went on to run his own Scuba diving school.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wong_Sue
My Pop was in K and Z Special Forces. He never spoke of what he did, we still don't know.
Howdy, ZEE for you, ZED for us! An Aussie thing I guess. 😁
A zapper is a person in the energies.
Look up zapper, Zap in the English Millay or digging trenches for trench was fair.
Hope this is helpful.
Hay Girlz, Much love from New Zealand. yea war is tuff & different time of the world and technology more hands on dirty time wow.... (don't think u need to have & in CAPS "FIRST TIME REACTION!" unless your planning on reacting a few more times to the same video hahahaha just having a laugh with ya.
A good one is the 1st SSF, better known as the Black Devils! More common as the Devil's Brigade! You might be shocked on their history??????
A huge thanks to all service personnel they do amazing work, try a reaction to the French Foreign Legion, they are a very close unit
Aussie combat vet
l served 6yrs in the legion before a medical discharge & you’re right when you say there’s not much available,a lot of the time it’s in/out sans any publicity🇦🇺🇫🇷LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA
There was a Tv series about Z force and the Singapore Raid or was it a movie?
There is a Mel Gibson film about this unit. Definitely worth a watch
A TV show call Z Force is based on them
Hey Ladies! I watched this on my TV! Yahoo 😂😂. You should do something on the battle of Hong Kong.
Look up the Australian SAS
Watch Gallipoli and before dawn
I'm glad you reacted to this because I didn't know any of it either! I used to run kayak tours here in Queensland and I think the Z Special Forces were badass.
I have great respect for the military. I wish I could serve but wouldn't be able to pass the medical.
When they parachuted into Borneo to train the natives they all had cyanide capsules incase of capture.
It disturbed me a bit that this guy didn't know how to spell Singapore, then it disturbed me MORE, 'cause you two never noticed!
Footnote. Did you know the LAST Japanese soldier to finally give up was in early 1970's?? Over 25 years after the war ended
THE KRATE
They don't make Aussies like that anymore!
The ultimate price of winning a war...
Zed. But I understand the confusion
Folding kayaks, or "Folboats"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_kayak
I was a member of 126 Signal Squadron (Special Forces). Many of our members joined the "Z Forces Association". Very brave men......
really? well much love from New Zealand too you...
Nice, I was a sig for 25 years too, never went SF though, broke my ankle during selection for the West and never committed myself to go again.
What a heroic group of men. It’s an amazing story isn’t it?. I already knew about these guys. My grandfather helped the unit with transport for missions. My grandfather enlisted in the Royal Australian Airforce the second his citizenship was official.
There is a movie about this unit called Attack Z Force starring Mel Gibson and Sam Neil. Pretty sure it was released in the early 80’s.
Thank you so much for showing these men the respect they weren’t shown back in their day for obvious reasons. Great video girls and thanks again.
That's incredible Jen!!
G'day Nat & Deb... you are right. There is a film called Atack Force Z. It is a 1982 film. I
highly recommend watching it. Heaps of Aussie & Kiwi actors starring in it. Thanks
for looking at the proud history of our military...
If you want a good WWI movie to watch, have a gander at The Lighthorsemen.
It is about the Battle of Beersheba...
Yes with a young Mel Gibson
Just checked TH-cam & still there.
The movie a good story but a crap movie to watch ,
Z force guys were real life Rambos. I think most Aussies know that they existed and especially about the Krait mission but I doubt we will ever really know how much damage that these heros inflicted on the enemy - lest we forget.
They were pretty much the opposite of Rambo. They were sneak in, do the job, sneak out. And much of their work was reconnaissance without attacking anything. Not exactly Rambo's style.
My father was friends with one of the Z special soldiers and I remember him visiting our house when I was young. The mans name was Jack Sue and from memory he was one of the members who blew up the ships in Singapore harbour.
The boat, "the Krait" is actually located at the Maritime Museum in Sydney Harbour.
Sadly, both State and Federal Governments are reluctant to uphold funding to keep this part of our history.
Typical, Pollies and higher ups send the people, we pay the cost. Due toe these guys, we have the freedom they created.
There was a very popular tv series in Australia called “spy force” based on the z force.
It ran from 71-73 here.
Starring Jack Thompson!
@@jemxs Russell Crowe's first acting as a 10 year old.
@@jemxs Peter sumner, bill Hunter.
All legends!
Remember well as a kid
You might like to find out about 28-year-old Australian Captain Barry Petersen who was sent to Vietnam in 1963 two years before the first official Australian troops arrived. He went into the mountains and did exactly what Marlon Brando's character did in the film Apocalypse Now. The CIA wanted his 'native troops' to use them for their program of assassinations but he wouldnt let them do that. In the end the CIA told him to get out of Vietnam or be killed.
I salute those men from Z Force and thank you for your bravery ❤❤🇦🇺🐨🐨🇦🇺❤️❤️
There was a TV Mini-Series in Australia called “The Heroes” with Cameron Daddo and Jason Donovan that showed the Krait attack on Singapore
the krait is still around at the Australian maritime museum in Sydney
Great video ladies 😂
We're definitely built tough down under 😉🙃🇭🇲
Also, movie recommendation if you're interested: Gallipoli - definitely worth a watch if you get a chance 😊
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Absolutely I second this movie recommendation
A Town Like Alice: With Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, John Lee. Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, is another to watch.
Barry Petersen The Tiger Man of Vietnam