Battle of Brisbane

Battle of Brisbane
Date	26–27 November 1942
Location	Brisbane, Australia
Methods	Rioting, protests, looting, attacks
Parties
United States Army Australian Army Civilians
Casualties and losses
None killed 1 killed (Gunner Edward S. Webster)
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.^[1] News reports of the incident were suppressed overseas, and the reasons for the riot were not mentioned in the few Australian newspaper reports of the event.^{[citation needed]}