Battle of Brisbane
| Battle of Brisbane | |||
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| Part of Anti-American sentiment during the Second World War | |||
| Date | 26–27 November 1942 | ||
| Location | Brisbane, Australia | ||
| Methods | Rioting, protests, looting, attacks | ||
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| Casualties and losses | |||
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| Hundreds wounded on both sides | |||
The Battle of Brisbane was a riot with United States military personnel on one side and Australian servicemen and civilians on the other, in Brisbane, Queensland's capital city, on 26 and 27 November 1942, during which time the two nations were allies. By the time the violence had been quelled, one Australian soldier was dead and hundreds of Australians and U.S. servicemen were injured. News reports of the incident were suppressed in the United States and subject to wartime censorship in Australia, with local and interstate newspapers prohibited from mentioning the reasons behind the riot in their reports of the event.