 During World War II it was revived in 1942 and subsequently saw active service with the 4th Brigade against the Japanese in the Huon Peninsula and New Britain campaigns.It was disbanded after the war in 1946.The 37th/52nd Battalion was formed in the state of Victoria in 1930 as part of a rationalisation of the Australia's part-time military forces that came about as a result of the combined effects of the suspension of compulsory service by the newly elected Scullin Labor government and the Great Depression; its predecessor units were the 37th and 52nd Battalions.