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Fraser Commando School
It is not known to all that that the Fraser Island became a secret training base for Commandos...
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Fraser Island Discovery: Fraser Island Tours - 186 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville QLD 4566 T (07) 5449 0393, info@thediscoverygroup.
com.
au
Fraser Commando School
It is not known to all that that the Fraser Island became a secret training base for Commandos
during the World War II.
This is another piece of Fraser Island’s interesting history that’s not
generally known and might have been forgotten.
Going back to 1942, at the heat of WWII, Australia was in a middle of a war with the Imperial
Japanese Forces.
Z Special Unit was born to operate behind Japanese lines in the countries of the
South East Asia to carry out secret operations on nations that were then occupied by the Japanese
Forces.
Z Special Unit or Z Force was also called Special Operations Executive (SOE), Special Operations
Australia (SOA) or Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD).
They are a joint Allied special
forces to function as reconnaissance and sabotage unit.
There are several training schools that operated in
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