Wartime Magazine Issue 27
Winter 2004
The Western Front
- Reflections by Steve Gower.
The Director of the Australian War Memorial's comment - Cowra breakout by Anne-Marie Condé.
60th anniversary of the only mass breakout of prisoners in the history of the British empire. - Two soldiers and a Vickers gun by Brad Manera.
Two George Cross winners who died during the breakout. - Australian officers in Normandy by John Jackson.
A small group of Australian officers went to observe the D-Day landings. - The butcher of Fromelles by Ross McMullin.
Blustering incompetence was no barrier to promotion for one British commander. - On the Western Front by Peter Cochrane.
A photo essay. - Rebirth of a city damned by Carolyne Carter.
BCOF soldiers visit Hiroshima in 1947. - Mesopotamian Half Flight by Ian Hodges.
Australian airmen in what is now southern Iraq in 1915. - A chateau in France by Peter Burness.
Grand homes on the front line. - Yeramba by Steve Gower and Mike Cecil.
The story of Australia’s only self-propelled gun. - Tragedy at An Nhut by Elizabeth Stewart.
Three men killed by a mine in Vietnam. - A war artist before his war by Craig Wilcox.
Arthur Streeton in London looks forward to the war. - The greater ‘truth’ by Laura Back.
The art of commissioning sculpture. - First in action by Colin Jones.
Australia’s first warship in the Maori wars. - Observer at large by Peter Londey.
Keith Howard in UNTSO. - Reflections on Rwanda by Garth Pratten.
Veterans recall their service on the 10th anniversary of Australia’s mission to Rwanda. - Eyewitness
The path to Gallipoli. - Plus regular features, including book reviews, letters and Memorial news.
