Planespotters on the job in World War 2
ONE of Australia's military problems in World War 2 was trying to keep track of the movements of large numbers of aircraft over the giant land-mass. Planes, both friendly and…
Plane wreck a monument to a war hero and an ill-starred venture
Stand by your glasses steady, for each man who takes off and flies. Here’s to the dead already; three cheers for the next man who dies.Toast proposed by British World…
US troops practice landing at Port Stephens, NSW, during World War 2.
The wartime US invasion of Port Stephens
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…