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Unidentified Australian soldier, 1941-1945, interviewed by Don Wall
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Maker: Wall, Donald
Talks of when Japanese entered Malaya; death of Assheton; Assheton's notebook; events at Mersing, Endua River; Beaufort Battery; position set up at Jahore Bahru enroute to Singapore Island; names mi...S04092
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Ursula Garner, as a member of the Australian Women's Land Army, interviewed by Dan Connell for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
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Maker: Garner, Ursula Connell, Daniel
Ursula Garner, as a member of the Australian Women's Land Army, interviewed by Dan Connell for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.S00764
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Valentine George Gardner as a lieutenant, 2/14th Battalion, New Guinea, 1940-1943, interviewed by Andrew Jack
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Maker: Gardner, Valentine George Jack, Andrew
TAPE 1: Early life; joined 7 Militia Battalion in 1936 aged sixteen; training in the militia; in 1940 promoted to corporal and became instructor of new recruits into the AIF; transferred from militia ...S01735
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Val Gale as a member of the Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA), 1942-1945, interviewed by Sue Hardisty
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Maker: Hardisty, Sue
Val Gale as a member of the Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA), 1942-1945, interviewed by Sue HardistyS02714
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Vangelis Sargetakis as a child living in Crete during the Second World War, interviewed by Alex Catharios
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Maker: SBS Radio
CD contains an interview with Vangelis Sargetakis and a transcript of the interview - Also available on CD at SBS Radio, Artarmon NSW. Completed as part of SBS Radio's Greek Language Program in 2005.S03897
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(V65593) Boland, Jack Wallis (Private), 39th Battalion, interviewed by Harry Martin for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
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Maker: Martin, Harry
Discusses prewar employment; religion; education; politics; joined militia; at age twenty one conscripted to 39th Battalion in Melbourne; transported by train to Sydney; embarkation on SS Aquitania; a...S00506
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(V345005) Elizabeth Field Lucas née Ratten as a major, Australian Women's Army Service, interviewed by Harry Martin for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-1945
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Maker: Lucas née Ratten, Elizabeth Field Martin, Harry
Early life; cousins had served in FWW; saw England as the mother country; studied to be an artist; set up a company designing shop displays including graphic design; approached by Colonel Viney (Inte...S00912
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Verna Lademan as a member of the Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA), 1942-1945, interviewed by Sue Hardisty
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Maker: Hardisty, Sue
Verna Lademan as a member of the Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA), 1942-1945, interviewed by Sue HardistyS02710
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Vernon Samuel Donegan, as a Major, 5th, 2nd and 102 Anti-aircraft Batteries, interviewed by Jane Fleming-Panegyres for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
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Maker: Donegan, Vernon Samuel Fleming-Panegyres, Jane
Vernon Samuel Donegan, of the 5th, 2nd and 102 Anti-aircraft Batteries talks about training; the Darwin Bombings; getting married; Dengue Fever; Rabaul; atomic bomb testing by the British.S00718
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Vice Admiral Sir John Augustine Collins KBE CB interviewed by Mr Robert Hyslop.
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Maker: Collins, John Augustine Hyslop, Robert
Interview part of a set conducted by Robert Hyslop with Royal Australian Navy Senior Officers and Government Ministers.S04652
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Victor Carlisle Jackson as a private, Volunteer Defence Corps, interviewed by Susan Green for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
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Maker: Jackson, Victor Carlisle Green, Susan
Victor Carlisle Jackson as a private, Volunteer Defence Corps, interviewed by Susan Green for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.S00798
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Victor George Marks, Merchant Navy ('Triadic'), and Jean Marks (nee Cowie) interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton.
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Maker: Marks, Jean
Victor George Marks, Merchant Navy ('Triadic'), and Jean Marks (nee Cowie) interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937-1947" oral history project. The interview covers topi...AWM2018.572.44
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Victor Henry Knight, as a Staff Sergeant, 2/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, interviewed by David McRobbie for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
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Maker: Knight, Victor Henry
Discussing pre-war employment; enlistment; embarkation for Middle East; Khassa Camp; Palestine; Vickers medium machine gun; Qastina Camp; ammunition; campaign at Trig Point 33; return to Australia; tr...S00555
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Victor James Geisler, Sergeant of 39th Battalion, interviewed by Harry Martin for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
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Maker: Geisler, Victor James Martin, Harry
Discusses prewar education; religion; nationalism; bandsmen; health; embarkation; SS Macdhui; food and medical supplies; stretcher bearer; air raids; Australian American relations; leisure; concert pa...S00505
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Victor Tudor McMinn as a sergeant No 5 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF, South West Pacific Area 1940-1945, interviewed by Kevin Dickson
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Maker: McMinn, Victor Tudor Dickson, Kevin Alexander
A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please contact the Sound section.S03847
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Victor Wakley Cahill as a Wireless / Air Gunner, RAAF, 1943-1946, interviewed by Michael Nelmes.
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Maker: Cahill, Victor Wakley
Enlisted 1943; No1 Initial Training School, Somers VIC (1943); No2 Wireless Air Gunnery School, Parkes NSW (wireless only) (1943); Air Gunnery School, West Sale (Fulham) VIC (1944); General Reconnais...S04262
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Victory in Europe
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
Within eight months of the D-day landings, the Allies advanced as far as the border of Germany. But a weakness in their front line allowed a last-ditch German counteroffensive, the Battle of the Bulge...S03124
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Victory in the Pacific
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Maker: Visual Education Corporation Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated
In August, 1942, the Marines landed at Guadalcanal. The landing was the first offensive in a series of large-scale, amphibious operations and bitter jungle combat actions that ultimately led to the Am...S03125
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Vivian Statham (Bullwinkel) MBE as a nursing sister 2/13th Australian General Hospital and a prisoner of the Japanese, 1939-1945, interviewed by Tim Bowden
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Maker: Bullwinkel, Vivian Bowden, Timothy Gibson 'Tim'
Vivian Statham (Bullwinkel) MBE as a nursing sister 2/13th Australian General Hospital and a prisoner of the Japanese, 1939-1945, interviewed by Tim Bowden A transcript of this recording may be avail...S02987
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"Voices from Overseas", Flight Lieutenant Virgil Paul Brennan DFC DFM, RAAF
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Maker: Brennan, Virgil Paul
Flight Lieutenant Paul Brennan is interviewed in this Red Cross "Voices from Overseas" radio recording. He was a decorated war hero, winning the DFC and DSM. He served six months at Malta. He gives hi...S00433