Wartime Magazine Issue 39
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Winter 2007
BOMBER COMMAND: B for Binbrook
- Reflections by Steve Gower.
The Director of the Australian War Memorial's comment - Australia's worst experience in war by Peter Burness.
ANZACs won a clear and decisive victory in 1917 - but at an unsustainable cost. - Bullecourt tank by John White.
Fought and lost in a day, the battle of Bullecourt was a disaster for Australians. - Waiting to come home by Walter Kudrycz, Claire Dujardin and Bernard Lejune.
A little-known diary recalls the period following the First World War. - Displaying Destruction by Anne-Marie Condé.
The Australian War Memorial went to great lengths to re-create scenes from the First World War. Then what happened? - Task force air commander by Chris Clark.
A colourful RAAF officer's career culminated in controversy in Vietnam. - Sixty years of keeping the peace by Peter Londey.
Every day for the past six decades Australian peacekeepers have served overseas. - Bravery under fire by John Connor.
Australian peackeepers caught in the crossfire in a massacre in Rwanda. - The night bird by Colin Jones.
An Australian army guerilla force fighting the Japanese in timor had just one link with home - a small warship named Kuru. - The 'god of strategy' cut short by Steve Bullard.
An allied air attack changed the career of a fanatical idealogue and pathalogically brutal staff officer headed for Kokoda. - Time and Type by Emma Morris.
Writing and producing newspapers was one of the most popular ways for Australian prisoners of war to pass the time. - B for Binbrook by Garth Pratten.
Too few remember the sacrifice of Australians in Bomber Command. - Surprise resistence by Tim Gellel.
The first Australian action against the Imperial Japanese Army did not achieve all its intended outcomes, but it demonstrated the Australians' fighting abilities. - Getting the measure of Kapyong by Nigel Steel.
Piecing together the puzzle behind the Memorial's new Korean War diorama. - On the recieving end by Andrew Arthy.
German raids on Hamraiet in 1943 were an unexpected and unwelcome surprise for the Allies. - The Surafend Incident by Lachlan Coleman.
Not all of the ANZAC strory is laudable. - Hands on, minds on by Christina Spittel and Kerry Neale.
The Memorial's Discovery Zone takes children into a new world. - Plus regular features, including book reviews, letters and Memorial news