Battle for Australia

Battle for Australia
	Part of World War II during the Pacific War
	; An Australian propaganda poster released in 1942. The poster was criticised for being alarmist when it was released and was banned by the Queensland Government.
Date	19 February 1942 – 2 September 1945
Location	Coral Sea, New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Australia
Result	Allied victory End of attacks following the capitulation of Japan;
Belligerents
Allied Powers Australia; New Zealand; United States; United Kingdom; Netherlands; Canada; Norway;	Axis Powers Japan; Germany;
Commanders and leaders
John Curtin ; Joseph Burnett ; David V. J. Blake ; John Crace ; Gerard Muirhead-Gould	Chūichi Nagumo ; Mitsuo Fuchida ; Kanji Matsumura ; Sakonjo Naomasa ; Sasaki Hankyu ; Robert Eyssen ; Theodor Detmers

The Battle for Australia is a contested historiographical term used to claim a coordinated link between a series of battles near Australia during the Pacific War of the Second World War alleged to be in preparation for a Japanese invasion of the continent.