A Victorian – Thomas Stewart Johnston 2/21st infantry Battalion of the 23rd Brigade, 8th Division
Some time ago my brother Bruce and l were talking about our time growing up at number four Parker street Beaufort.
Borneo – The Last Campaign with Michael Veitch – Video Presentation
Borneo: The Last Campaign tells the story of Operation OBOE, the massive, three-pronged assault on the vast Japanese-held island of Borneo in 1945.
Under The Same Moon – Book review
Peter Mitchell’s book Under The Same Moon is a beautifully written social history.
80 years on – the boy looks back at his airman father
The signing of the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945 aboard the battleship USS Missouri marked the formal end of the Pacific War.
Fighting to the Finish: Australia in 1945 – Strategy, Victory and Legacy.
Which were the key battles Australians were fighting in?
Lost Women of Rabaul By: Roderick Miller – Book Review
This is the story of huge wartime injustice against 17 Australian Nurses, 1 civilian ex-pat, and a Female US citizen, at the hands of Japanese captors during the Second World […]
Brave Victorians fight in Second Boer War
Great Britain once boasted that the sun never sets on the British Empire, in it’s hey day from the 18th to the 20th centuries it is estimated that Great Britain […]
RESOLUTE- The Australian Air War in Burma 1942 – 1945 by Andrew Kilsby & Daryl Moran – Book Review
For some time, the Burma Campaign was overlooked, and largely forgotten, as was the contribution of the participating RAAF aircrew.
