General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief of Australian Military Forces during World War II, was our highest-ranking soldier and arguably our most controversial.
Major-General Jim Barry AM, MBE, RFD, ED (Rtd), MHHV Patron, opened the conference by noting that when Professor Geoffery Blainey had presided over the inception of the MHHV he had […]
MHHV is excited to announce the Call for Papers for our next conference – Fighting to the Finish: Australia in 1945 – Strategy, Victory and Legacy – which will be […]
Maurie Stehbens had never seen one before, but he knew what it was as soon as he saw it bobbing up and down in the waves, just ahead of his […]
It is asserted by many that there was a second warning given to Darwin of the incoming air raid of 19th February 1942.
It is a long way from England for a veteran of the 1944 D-Day landings, but Tasmania is where Les Elliott made home for the last 60 years.
On the 18/4/2023 the shipwreck, Montevideo Maru was discovered at a depth of over 4000 meters of water, (13000 feet), in the south China sea, off the northwest coast of […]
Though the North African campaigns of World War 2 have a reputation for mainly being fought by tanks, both sides relied as much on spying as they did on cold, […]
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