The following is a list of some of the military help pledged by governments to help the Indian Ocean nations hit by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami, compiled by Reuters bureaux:

•<B> AUSTRALIA. </B> Australia has sent 350 soldiers to Indonesia along with four Iroquois helicopters. It has also set up a military field hospital in Aceh, sent four C-130 Hercules aircraft to Sumatra, and set up a water purification plant in Bunda Aceh, producing 480,000 litres of clean water a day.

Its troop supply ship HMAS Kanimbla was on its way to Aceh, with an army engineering team of 150. The Australian Federal Police have also sent a 25-member forensic identification team to Phuket and an AFP officer is coordinating the 200-strong team of international forensic experts.

•<B>BANGLADESH.</B> Bangladesh has dispatched 111 soldiers to Sri Lanka and the Maldives and another 46 will move in a day or two. Two C-130 aircraft and two Bell-212 helicopters will carry the soldiers, rescue equipment, anti-diarrhoea medicine, water purifying tablets, food and tents to Sri Lanka and Maldives.

•<B> CHINA. </B>The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has airlifted nearly 500 tonnes of food, water, milk powder, blankets, tents, clothing, generators, telecommunication equipment and medicine to tsunami victims, the China Daily said. The 2.5-million-strong PLA, the world’s largest army, is involved in relief operations in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. It will also carry out relief operations in the Maldives. No figures were given for the number of soldiers, aircraft and vessels mobilised, but the newspaper described it as the country’s largest peacetime overseas humanitarian mission.

•<B>GERMANY. </B>Medical evacuation plane (35 personnel, including medical staff) now on third mission evacuating Germans from Thailand. Second evacuation plane to be ready on Tuesday.

Mobile hospital in Aceh. Currently eight personnel assessing site, with view for team to be in place by end of the week (team typically of 120 medical staff). Supply ship “Berlin” (with 150 crew) heading to region from Horn of Africa. Due in Aceh at start of next week, bringing aid supplies and water treatment equipment. It also has 45 beds and an operating theatre, plus two helicopters.

•<B>INDIA. </B>The Indian military, the world’s fourth largest with 1.3 million men and women under arms, has put at least 16,000 personnel into its biggest relief operation ever, which extends also to Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia.

From the Navy. 32 navy ships including frigates, destroyers and survey ships to tsunami-hit areas, carrying medical equipment, medicine, food, blankets and water. Includes two ships — one a hospital ship — sent to Aceh, five to Sri Lanka, and three ships to the tiny Indian Ocean nation of Maldives. Most of the 10 ships sent aboard are equipped with helicopters. From the Air Force At least 5,000 airmen and 41 aircraft are involved, including seven giant IL-76 transports, 16 helicopters, 15 AN-32 transport aircraft and three smaller Avro transports.

•<B> ITALY.</B> Six to eight carabinieri (para-military police) specialists in forensics to help identify bodies in Thailand.

•<B>JAPAN.</B> Japan has ordered its military to prepare to help disaster relief efforts in tsunami-hit Indonesia, in what could be its largest mobilisation of its kind. Defence Minister Yoshinori Ohno ordered around 800 troops, army medical and airlift teams, navy vessels, and air force transport aircraft to be ready to deploy. An advance fact-finding team of 20 military personnel left for Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia on Tuesday. Last week, Japan also sent three navy vessels to Thailand for a search and rescue mission.

•<B>PAKISTAN.</B>Pakistan plans to send 500 military personnel in medical and engineering teams to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. After an initial deployment by air, heavy equipment to be sent by ship. A field hospital comprising about 60 doctors and paramedics and a company of engineers will be sent to Indonesia. A similar deployment would then be made to Sri Lanka.

•<B> UNITED STATES.</B> About 12,600 US military personnel have joined relief efforts in Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, many aboard ships carrying clean water, food and dozens of helicopters. Most US military relief efforts being organised from an air base in U-Tapao, Thailand. As of Monday there were 21 US ships involved, including the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and helicopter carrier USS Bonhomme Richard, supplying aid with 80 aircraft. More than 6,100 personnel were on the Abraham Lincoln and its accompanying ships near the devastated Indonesian city of Banda Aceh. So far, US military personnel have delivered 430,000 pounds (195,000 kg) of supplies to the region. Fourteen cargo planes were taking food, supplies and equipment to supply hubs in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. US military plans to double to about 90 the number of helicopters being provided for the disaster relief effort, the head of US Pacific Command said.