Wartime Magazine Issue 28

Spring 2004

The First Kamikaze Attack?

• Reflections by Steve Gower.  
  The Director of the Australian War Memorial's comment
• The battles of Boucaut Bay by Craig Wilcox.  
  Two years before the Second World War an Australian patrol boat opened fire on Japanese pearling luggers.
• The first Kamikaze attack? by Robert Nichols.  
  A surprise attack on HMAS Australia caused horrific injuries.
• And they didn’t live happily ever after by Jane Peek.  
  Violet Glover and the execution of her prisoner-of-war husband.
• Prisoner of steel by John Moremon.  
  The story of an Australian officer who survived torture by the Japanese.
• Assault on the Pimple by Phillip Bradley.  
  Fighting around Shaggy Ridge in December 1943.
• Buna attack by Chris Linke.  
  The 2/6th Independent Company in action.
• Operation Guidance by Ray Worledge.  
  A daring X-Craft raid on Bergen in April 1944.
• ‘Founder’ of the Australian War Museum by Peter Stanley.  
  The story of Ernie Bailey, Australian Salvage Corps.
• Sunken hopes by Eric Carpenter.  
  The torpedoing of the Southland.
• Death on the goldfields by Brad Manera.  
  150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade.
• The seasons of battle by Peter Burness.  
  The role of weather on the Western Front 1916–18.
• Baptism of fire by Sharon Losik.  
  A lifeboat from MV Devanha used at the ANZAC landing.
• Independence Day at Hamel by Mitchell Yockelson.  
  Americans and Australians in action together at Hamel.
• Reconciliation at last by Brian Cleaver and Peter Phillips.  
  The search for a gravesite leads to the spirit of reconciliation among former enemies.
• Mrs Weir’s morning teas by Keiko Tamura.  
  Escaped Japanese prisoners of war after the Cowra breakout.
• Eyewitness.  
  Keith Hooper’s experiences as a prisoner of war of the Germans.
• Plus regular features, including book reviews, letters and Memorial news.

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