Warime Magazine Issue 3

Spring 1998

• "G for George" by John White
  A veteran of ninety night bombing raids carried out over France, Italy and Germany “George” was an incredible survivor of the worst part of the bomber offensive; few aircraft completed anything like ninety operations.
• G for George and the Third Victory Loan tour by Michael Nelmes
  The last flight of "George" - to Canberra and the Memorial
• Where Lancasters fly by David Crotty
  An aircraft curator visits restoration projects in Great Britain
• Observing in South Lebanon by Peter Londey
  Australian United Nation observers in the Middle East
• The black day of the German army 8 August 1918 by Ross McMullin
  The events of 8 August, 1918 crushed any hopes of a German victory
• Remembering the Australians in France, 1918 by Richard Reid
  All over northern France, white crossed mark the graves of the thousands of Australians buried there.  The graves, together with the local battle cemeteries and monuments, also mark the course of the great allied offensive that broke the German army in France.
• Bonjour Mardermwazell! By James Curan
  Diggers discover gay Paree, 1918
• The missing Lone Pine by VC R.C.H Courtney
  The seventh Australian Victoria Cross won at Lone Pine - where is it?
• The brief history of Australian Corps Ski Company, Syria 1941-1942 by Russell Parkin
  20^th November 1941 Brigadier Frank Berryman signed a secret order to raise an AIF
• Seventeen men by W.H Connell
  Since the 1920’s the men featured in this photograph of B Company, 29^th Infantry Battalion, being briefed by their platoon commander on the morning of 8 August 1918, has appeared over and over again in books and magazines...find out who these men are.
• Pip, Squeak and Wilfred by R.C.H Courtney
  A story from the trenches of France
• The story of Able Seaman Harrison by Genevieve Thompson
  A diary of the Philippines invasion. When Able Seaman Denis Harold Harrison joined HMAS Gascoyne and helped lay markers in the reparation for the invasion of the Philippines, he discovered how close death could come as Japanese aircraft attacked the ship.
• Dropping a line – Louis Kahan’s “V-mail” portraits  by Magda Keaney
  Louis Kahan has had a distinguished career as an artist. In 1962, he was awarded the prestigious Archibald Prize for his portrait of author Patrick White.
• Hellfire Pass by Robert Pounds
  Of all the terrible places at which Australian POWs laboured on the Burma – Thailand railway, few conjure up as vivid a sense of that experience as Hellfire Pass.