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Comment by jiggawatts

3 days ago

Australia, New Zealand, etc…

Admittedly not a ground war, but that's not entirely true:

> In total, there were 97 air attacks on northern Australia, though air reconnaissance was carried out over the region by Axis Powers through much of 1944.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_air_raids_on_Australi...

and

> German and Japanese surface raiders and submarines operated in New Zealand waters on several occasions in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1945, sinking a total of four ships while Japanese reconnaissance aircraft flew over Auckland and Wellington preparing for a projected Japanese invasion of New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_New_Zealan...