Wartime Magazine Issue 22

Autumn 2003

War Without Boundaries: the Battle Against Terrorism

• Reflections by Steve Gower.  
  The Director of the Australian War Memorial's comment
• War without boundaries by Peter Londey.  
  As the world changes and becomes even more dangerous, Australians have been fighting in a new kind of war.
• The Hook by Brad Manera.  
  Fifty years ago the last Australian action of the Korean War was fought.
• Pozières hell by Peter Burness.  
  The tragic story of Captain David Twining.
• ANZAC Day VC at Villers-Bretonneux by Brad Manera.  
  Two awards for bravery in a courageous counter-attack on 25 April 1918.
• Bare Back by Mike Cecil.  
  An old warhorse finds a home at the Memorial.
• Death in the minefield by Ashley Ekins.  
  Australia’s biggest blunder of the Vietnam War, the “barrier minefield”, resulted in distressing casualties.
• FSB role in ‘mini-Tet’ by Chris Clark.  
  The largest regimental-scale action involving Australians since the Second World War was staged in May 1968.
• A born horseman by Humphrey McQueen.  
  Tom Roberts’s portrait of Sergeant Fraser of the NSW Mounted Rifles.
• At the tip of the javelin by Ian Hodges.  
  Only the best were hand-picked for the Dam Busters aircrew and among them were several Australians.
• Geoffrey Mainwaring – war artist by Lee Kinsella.  
  One of Australia’s most prolific official war artists of the Second World War.
• The long tow home by Richard Pelvin.  
  HMAS Vendetta’s return to Australia after the fall of Singapore.
• Arnall’s folly by Chris Clark.  
  After an ill-fated bayonet charge, Australians resorted to subterranean warfare at Gallipoli.
• The first shot by Colin Jones.  
  Australia’s first shot of the Great War was fired against a German ship in Port Philip bay.
• The missing bodies by Tom Lewis.  
  Wild claims of thousands killed during the first Japanese raids on Darwin debunked.
• Silt Spur – anatomy of a demonstration by James Hurst.  
  Action on Gallipoli.
• Eyewitness: HMAS Australia to the rescue by Mackenzie Gregory.  
  An Australian sailor recalls the rescue of a downed Sunderland flying boat in the North Atlantic.
• Despatches
  Newsletter of the Australian War Memorial ANZAC Foundation
• Plus regular features, including book reviews, letters and Memorial news.

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