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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 ...
Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt 'Bud', killed in the Second World War.
Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ...
In 1942 a secret inland flying boat base was established in the picturesque north-western Victorian town of Lake Boga. This housed No. 1 Flying Boat ...
Winner of the Les Carlyon Literary Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Australian History Prize.
First Runner Up for Templer Medal Book Prize ...
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 ...
The tragic and carefully researched story of a WWII fighter pilots brutal sacrifice and the painstaking search for the truth. Not all casualties in wartime ...
Alan Turing saved millions of lives. But Bletchley Park wasn't the only major code-breaking operation during World War II. Down under, there was Central ...
In mid-1945, the Australian 7th and 9th Divisions conducted three amphibious operations code-named Oboe on Borneo. The Allies enjoyed command of the sea and the ...
To the Australian Army, Private Lawrence Nicholas Kennedy was NX21854, a soldier who served for 1907 days with the 2/4th Australian Army Field Ambulance ...
They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and American troops lifted when they ...
Travel with a group of captured Australian nurses into the dark heart of the ascendant Japanese Empire at the start of the Pacific War.
Quiver ...
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off ...
'That bastard's still alive? I'm going to kill him with my bare hands.' POW Bill Moxham
At the Australian war crimes trials that ...
The British Admiralty's telegram arrived at Navy Office in Melbourne, the order to go to all-out war. It was coldly succinct- TOTAL GERMANY ... The ...