Not sure what point you are making here SLXOwft. My point is that Australia was not 'abandoned' by anyone. It was the obvious jumping off point for rolling back Jap occupation of the territories that lay to its north. The USA took command of that under General MacArthur, hence the US reinforcement presence in Australia. You might just as well say that Egypt was 'abandoned' by the US when it was clearly the responsibility of the Brits to defend it. If TBM's attitude is widespread then all the more reason to call it out. The important thing was to achieve victory over the Axis powers, not to avoid offending anyone's finer feelings. Oh, and I 'played the man' as you put it because he saw fit to do his 'bashing' in a thread that has nothing to do with the Brits, WWII, or Australia.
Can we close this mega drift off now, before the wrath of the Mods falls about us all?