ANZAC
âX Lightersâ
A number of large purpose-built `X Lightersâ had been developed by the Navy in the First World War and these contributed to the landings at Suvla Bay in 1915. Although something of a military sideshow, the campaign at Gallipoli also made a contribution to the acceptance of the internal combustion engine for marine use. Anticipating the need to land troops…
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Film â GALLIPOLIÂ (1981)
Synopsis Gallipoli is an Australian war film produced by Patricia Lovell and Robert Stigwood, directed by Peter Weir, and starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, who play two young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Army during the First World War and participate in the failed British effort…
HMAS Sydney in the Korean War
HMAS Sydney in Korean waters, 1951-52. Honisett, Ray. A Firefly FR 5 on HMAS Sydneyâs catapult with its engine running but not quite ready to launch. The shipâs USN S-51 `plane-guardâ helicopter has just launched and taken up its position off the port bow. A replacement Firefly FR 5 being…
Australian Military
The military has occupied a marginal position in Australian society for most of the nationâs history, but war and the fact of military service have been key determinants in the shaping of the national character and ethos. At the level of national policy, the search for security through alliance with…
The Other Pearl Harbor
This work was drawn from a small set of photographs taken by an able seaman on a corvette on the day that the Japanese first bombed Darwin. The SS Neptuna was bombed whilst berthed at the Darwin Jetty. The ship was loaded with mixed cargo and depth charges, it caught…
Konfrontasi
The first major Australian SAS operation began on 21 June 1965, when a patrol led by Corporal John Robinson helped guide a company of Gurkhas under the command of a British officer, Captain Ashman, to attack Lumbis, a village about ten kilometres inside Indonesian territory. After three days walking, they reached…
âI have seen the Australiansâ Part I
British, American and Australian troops lunching in a wood near Corbie the day before the attack at Hamel. Early in July, now under General John Monash, the Diggers win a model victory with his new tactics. Weeks later the AIF and Canadians lead an Allied attack which inflicts a resounding…