Wartime Magazine Issue 23

01 June 2003

Winter 2003

New Guinea Offensives

Reflections by Steve Gower.
The Director of the Australian War Memorial's comment
Capture of the Amiens gun by Robert Nichols.
The 85th anniversary of the battle of Amiens, when Australia’s greatest First World War trophy was captured.
The Gallipoli sword by Chris Clark.
Does it exist? It did, but it was not what people believed.
MIAs or ‘no known grave’ by Ashley Ekins.
Six men from the Vietnam War.
Recall of the Saigon Guard by Brad Manera.
Thirty years ago, the Saigon Guard left Vietnam.
Women at war by Elizabeth Stewart.
Nurses were not the only Australian women to experience the demands and trauma of the Vietnam War.
The Nauru connection by Michael Pretes.
A tiny island near the equator has given Australia more than a strategic advantage.
New Guinea offensives by Peter Stanley.
The Allied push to victory in New Guinea.
Tragedy at Jackson’s Strip by Phillip Bradley.
A crashed bomber causes havoc in Port Moresby.
Burma–Thailand railway by Ian Hodges and Daniel Oakman.
A photo-essay on this infamous Second World War railway built by prisoners of war.
The capture of Company 621 by Ian Kelly.
The capture of Rommel’s intelligence company near El Alamein in 1942 was a key event in the war in North Africa, but even today, little is known of this vital action.
Gulf War, 1941 by Richard Pelvin.
Iran was in the sights of the original HMS Kanimbla.
The broken chain by Peter Burness.
“E for Easy” was widely regarded as the most damaged plane in Bomber Command to have made it back from an operation.
The Krait by Brad Manera.
Operation Jaywick – the raid on Singapore in 1943.
A new kind of digger by Craig Wilcox.
An archaeological dig in Northern Australia.
To war with a pen by Daniel Oakman.
Osmar White joined the army to fight Nazi and Japanese expansionism but his publisher had other thoughts.
Bushmaster by Michael Cecil.
A historic vehicle comes to the Memorial.
Essay: My great uncle by Amy Westcott.
Prize-winning contribution from ten-year-old student Amy Westcott.
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