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After Armistice- Three Weeks In France, November 1918
Go back to November 1918 and take a journey across the countryside of North-Western Europe, visiting places that have become synonymous with Australian Military History.
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Sep 52 min read
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! (Part 3)
The final part of the document that was written by Rev. Owen Spencer Watkins who first witnessed the horror of Gas Warfare in WWI.
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Jan 139 min read
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! (Part 2)
The next part of our journey will see the continuing translation of the document and a focus on the personal defence of the Soldier...
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Sep 28, 20247 min read
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! (Part 1)
Explore the First Gas Attack of World War One...
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Apr 13, 202410 min read
Healthy Choices For The Master Race
Investigate the anti-smoking movement in Nazi Germany and how it didn't apply to everyone...
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Dec 20, 20224 min read
Anime At The Enemy
Explore the Japanese Propaganda campaign directed against the Australian and Allied soldiers in the Pacific War.
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Nov 5, 20226 min read
Rocket Science...
One might need a Rocket Scientist to unravel this unbelievable story that has more tangents than a trigonometry exam. Luckily we have...
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Dec 1, 20207 min read
Blut on the Hands...
How did Germany as a nation and people become accomplices to the persecution of certain people under the Third Reich? How does an average...
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Oct 31, 20204 min read
Loss of Words
Two letters have popped up on my radar connected by their intention of condolences to two families on their loss of their sons fallen in...
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Oct 4, 20202 min read
Lousy Louse
Lice... Much of a soldier’s time and attention was devoted to battling this tiny, but fearsome parasite. As many as 96 percent of Soviet...
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Sep 1, 20203 min read
Panzer Hunter
The Seige of Sevastopol Described by Adolf Hitler as an 'unsinkable Aircraft Carrier' the Soviet naval base at Sevastopol was one of the...
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Jul 30, 20203 min read
A Stumbling Block In The Way Of Tyranny...
If you go traveling down Linzer Bundesstraße 58 in Salzburg, Austria you will literally stumble across this 'stumbling block'.
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Jun 19, 20207 min read
Tenancy Problems...
A tenancy disagreement highlights post-war Germany coming to grips with its past.
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May 9, 20203 min read
Hitler's Air Force Zero
During his time as leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler used several planes as his personal transport. Hitler obtained his first private aeroplane, a standard Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52/3m with registration number D-2600 (Werk Nr. 4021), in February 1933, on becoming German Chancellor.
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Apr 30, 20201 min read
Home and Away
I did a bit of research and discovered that it was the souvenir program for the Pioneer Exhibition Game Australian Football: in aid of British and French Red Cross Societies played at Queen's Club, West Kensington, on Saturday, October 28th, 1916, at 3 pm.
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Mar 22, 20201 min read
The Last P.O.W (Part 3: The Will To Survive)
Hope is a powerful weapon and when Sgt Martin Watson was captured on 10 April 1951, little did he know hope and his training would be two things that would keep him alive in the ordeal to come.
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Mar 1, 20207 min read
General Macarthur Leaving Japan - 1951
These photos show American General Douglas Macarthur leaving Japan in 1951, the images were taken in April 1951 at Haneda Air Base in Tokyo.
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Feb 24, 20201 min read
Letter by Mayor Department - Dresden
This letter is from the Mayor's office in Dresden, it is related to a German SS soldier named Wilhelm Kracht who was killed in action in...
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Feb 24, 20201 min read
NSDAP Headquarters Internal Document
This is an internal document from the Headquarters of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) in Munich. In 1930 the NSDAP...
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Jan 26, 20201 min read
Letter by Secretary of Hermann Goring
This is an original letter from the office of Hermann Goring, personally hand signed by his secretary and consultant Ursula Grundtmann....
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Jan 25, 20201 min read
The Last P.O.W. (Part 2: The Korean War and Operation Virginia 1)
Corporal Martin Robert Watson was liberated from his WWII German POW camp in 1945 and immediately volunteered for the 4th Ranger Infantry Division.
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Jan 15, 202012 min read
Feldpost From SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Adjutant of Julius Streicher
This feldpost letter was written by Alios Kalsch, who was the former adjutant of Jew hater and agitator Julius Streicher. Alois Kalsch...
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Dec 31, 20194 min read
The Last P.O.W. (Part 1: The Molding of a Ranger)
This is a story about a man that you wouldn't have had heard of before and in fact if you go to this man's grave site in Saint Josephs Cemetery, Chester, Middlesex County, Connecticut in the U.S.A. its barely visible in the overgrown grass that surrounds it.
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Dec 29, 201913 min read
What drives a soldier to be an author?
While the final motivations that drive a veteran to write of their experiences and have them published must be as varied as human nature...
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Dec 17, 20192 min read
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