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We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.
March, 1941 ...
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to ...
Winner of the 2022 Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize, awarded annually by the Australian Naval Institute to recognise excellence in books making a major contribution ...
In recent years many people in Milingimbi have asked about the plane wrecks and how they got here. Most people knew that they were a ...
In early March 1942 Allied forces in the Netherlands East Indies surrendered and the lightning Japanese conquest of South East Asia was complete. Amid fears ...
Jack Kennedy (Sydney), Stuart Walch (Hobart), Dick Glyde (Perth), Ken Holland (Sydney), Pat Hughes (Cooma and Sydney), Bill Millington (Adelaide), John Crossman (Newcastle) and Des ...
Japanese troops seized and brutally occupied New Guinea's capital, Lae, for 18 months - until 16 September 1943. That day Australian soldiers retook the town ...
HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one of Australia's main combat vessels.
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Volume five of the "Australian Doctors at War" series covers the period from December 1941 to January 1943, when the Japanese crossed New Guinea, threatening ...
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November 1942, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track to the north coast ...
Men at War takes an intimate look at the Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, which was formed in Victoria in 1940 as Australia entered the ...
Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero ...
The chain of events that led to the death of over 2,500 Prisoners of War - one of Australia's worst wartime tragedies - the cancellation ...
The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February ...
In the Second World War, thousands of Australian boys lied about their age and volunteered for a war the scale of which they could never ...
