A Wasted Effort? – The RAAF and the Battle for Tarakan – Part 2
Operations.
A Wasted Effort? – The RAAF and the Battle for Tarakan – Part 1
Plans, Command Problems and Controversy.
Australia 1943: The Liberation of New Guinea by Peter J. Dean (ed) – Book Review
Largely overlooked for the more dramatic battles of 1941 (Greece, Crete, Syria, Tobruk) and 1942 (El Alamein, Papua New Guinea) the battles in New Guinea in 1943 are a portrait […]
Godfrey Blunden – Australian War Correspondent
Born and educated in Melbourne, Godfrey Blunden was a journalist working for the Sydney Daily Telegraph when in 1940, at the age of 34, he was sent to Europe to […]
US Marines in Melbourne
The close bonds of friendship and cooperation between the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and the Australian Army were forged in the Pacific campaigns of World War 2 and continue […]
Rear Admiral Sir Brian Stewart Murray
Rear Admiral Sir Brian Stewart Murray was born at Glen Huntly, VIC on 26 December 1921 and was educated at Hampton High School, Melbourne.
Vale – Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie ‘Mac’ Jesse Gregory, Royal Australian Navy (Retired)
Mac Gregory was born in Geelong on 9 February 1922. His father was a member of the RAN based at Osborne House in Geelong and working with the J-Class Submarines.
Reginald Langdon Buller
Reginald Langdon Buller, Civil Servant, Naval Officer and Vigneron was born in Geelong, Victoria on 30 May 1894 the only son of Frederick Thomas Buller (Civil Servant) and Mary Graham […]
