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60th anniversary of sinking of HMAS Voyager II
This February, marks the 60th anniversary of a momentous event in Royal Australian Navy (RAN) history, the loss of the destroyer HMAS Voyager II following a collision with the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne II.
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Seeking copyright holders
The Memorial is seeking permission from the copyright holders to publish the collections listed below.
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50th Anniversary of the Battle of Nui Le: 21 September 1971
21 September 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the battle of Nui Le in Vietnam.
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'The Little Digger'
It was Christmas Day 1918, and the men of the Australian Flying Corps 4 Squadron had just sat down to enjoy a sumptuous Christmas lunch when a small French boy wandered in to the airmen's mess at Bickendorf Air Base in Germany.
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The silent soldiers of Naours
It was just before Christmas, during the bitterly cold winter of 1916, when Australian Gunner Thomas Charters Forbes etched his name into the walls of a chalky limestone cave in northern France. More than a century later, his name is one of the thousands discovered etched into the walls of the subterranean city of Naours, a vast underground system of caves and tunnels beneath the plateau of Picardy.
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The Role of Catalinas in Australia's War in the Pacific
It is often said that the Consolidated PBY Catalinas were to Australia what the Supermarine Spitfire was to Britain. With an ability to fly long hours at a low altitude at a slow pace (ideal for mine placement), it was one of the most important Allied aircraft of the Pacific War.
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'It's a really lovely work to have'
Art curator Alex Torrens couldn't believe it when she opened her email. It was just before Remembrance Day, and there, hidden amongst the messages in her inbox, was a message offering the Memorial a rare pastel drawing from the First World War.
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'You can't help but think, what could have been'
Ron Dennis never really knew his father. His father Bernard enlisted when Ron was too young to remember him and died in New Guinea on Armistice Day 1943, six days before Ron's sixth birthday.
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The saddest selfie
It's a striking image of a fresh-faced young man taking a photograph of himself reflected in a dresser mirror more than 100 years ago. Less than a year later, 21-year-old Captain "Rich" Baker was dead, one of the last Australians to be killed in action during the First World War.
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'I saw the look of shock in their eyes'
Baden Pascoe was with his parents when the news came. His older brother Percival had been serving as a stoker aboard the light cruiser HMAS Sydney when it was sunk by the German raider Kormoran in November 1941.
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'He always said that the Bible in his pocket was the thing that saved him'
When Alfred Dow was hit by shrapnel during the Siege of Tobruk, a small pocket-sized copy of the New Testament saved his life. He was one of more than 50 "Black Rats of Tobruk" and one of more than 2,000 Indigenous Australians who served during the Second World War.
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'Peace and quiet is what one asks for'
It's Spring 1915 and a lone soldier stands on guard outside a prisoners' tent, armed with his rifle. The moment was captured more than 100 years ago in a deceptively simple, but elegant, pastel and gouache drawing by the Australian artist Iso Rae. Rae was one of only two Australian women artists who were able to depict the First World War from such close quarters.
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The "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels": looking beyond the myth
The popular myth of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels has throughout the generations asserted the belief that Papuan carriers, during the 1942 battle for Kokoda, willingly provided assistance to the Australian war effort as volunteers. However, contradictions surround the history of the Papuan carriers concerning their recruitment, treatment, and working conditions.
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The flag on Anzac House by Joe Maxwell
The Flag: Anzac House by Joe Maxwell, The Reveille, June 1930, p 11.'A few minutes after we had captured our objective on September 20, 1917, Corps Headquarters was informed: "Objective reached. Australian flag flying on Anzac House."
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Timor-Leste Commission: tais, culture and resistance
The Australian War Memorial has commissioned four traditional woven tais cloths from the LO'UD Cooperative, and represent the shared history between the East Timorese people and the Australian Defence Force during the Australian-led Peacekeeping mission, INTERFET, between 1999 and 2000.
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'We were pretty lucky'
Vern Roberts was guarding a Liberator bomber on the island of Morotai when he heard gunfire.
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'It's been an incredible honour'
It's a nerve-racking moment for Dr Charles Robb. The Brisbane-based artist has wrangled approximately 200 kilograms of clay to create a sculptural portrait of Second World War nurse Vivian Bullwinkel, and is watching on as the final bronze sculpture is being craned into position at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
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'It was a terrible time'
There are some things Len Seto would rather forget, but the memories are never far away.
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'We were part of recording history'
David Combe had gone out with a patrol on the Saigon River to capture images and footage for news agencies in Australia when the boat he was in capsized, leaving the group stranded with little to no food or ammunition.
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