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The Emu War (or Great Emu War) [2] was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the later part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus, a large flightless bird indigenous to Australia, said to be destroying crops in the Campion district within the Wheatbelt of Western Australia.
The Experimental Military Unit (EMU) was a joint Australian-American company-sized helicopter assault force which operated during the Vietnam War.The unit was created in 1967 following a request from the United States military for Australia to send more helicopter pilots to the conflict.
In 1932 many emus moved into farm territory in Western Australia, with the army called in to dispatch them in the so-called Emu War. Some attacks noted include in 1957 an emu charged a car, [15] in 1904 an emu attacked a dog's owner after the dog attacked it, [16] in 1873 an emu attacked children and a woman at Johnstone Park, Geelong. [17]
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
Emu War: Final score for this one: Emus 1, Australians 0. Flagstaff War: A war that started between British military forces and the indigenous Polynesian people in New Zealand after a flagstaff was cut down four times. Football War: A six-day war fought between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 that was triggered by a game of football (soccer).
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"An extreme example of this was the Emu War in Western Australia in 1932, when emus that flocked to Campion during a hot summer scared the town’s inhabitants and an unsuccessful attempt to drive them off was mounted,[60] with the army called in to dispatch them in the so-called 'war'."