Militaria Archives ~ Photo Time Tunnel

US troops practice landing at Port Stephens, NSW, during World War 2.

The wartime US invasion of Port Stephens

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:October 6, 2019
Post Category:History / Militaria / Vintage Photographs and Photography

At the peak of the Allied Pacific campaign in World War 2, more than 14,000 American and British troops were based in the Shoal Bay area of Port Stephens. Shoal…

Wounded seaman being carried from the damaged freighter Allara in Newcastle, 1942

Wartime fears of a seaman’s daughter

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:July 15, 2019
Post Category:History / Militaria / Newcastle, NSW, Australia / Vintage Photographs and Photography

FOR young Daphne Roper the most important thing about any ship entering Newcastle Harbour in the difficult years of World War II was its funnel. Daphne’s father Alexander McMorran was…

Jean Dunbar (right) and another worker in Lysaght's Owen Gun shop in Newcastle

When Mum made guns for Aussie soldiers

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:April 26, 2019
Post Category:History / Militaria / Newcastle, NSW, Australia / Vintage Photographs and Photography

"Oh my God, that's my Mum!" I was showing the general manager of The Newcastle Herald, Julie Ainsworth, a proof copy of our 2011 book, Recovered Memories, which contained many…