Magpie – Exploring the untold stories of World War II & PTSD
Looking at the website for ‘Magpie’, it’s hard to miss the self-proclaimed phrase ‘not just another war film’ nosediving out of the screen. I’m sure…
The Red Baron – Separating Truth From Fiction – By Ryan Clauser
During World War I a scarlet triplane terrorized the skies over France. This image is one that many people conjure when they think of…
Milne Bay – The first Japanese Land Defeat of the Second World War
Reprinted with permission from Australian Bunker and Military Museum Milne Bay is located on the south-eastern tip of Papua. Before World War II, most of the area’s…
The Friendly Invasion Returns to Suffolk: Welcoming Home Two Men of The Mighty Eighth
Often, my father frustratingly reflects on his 17 year stint in the office of a sugar beet factory through the realisation that almost every man…
The Wirraway Story – Australia’s First Warplane
As war loomed in Europe with the growing menace of Nazi Germany there was also an awareness of a Nationalist Japan intent on expanding its…
Australia’s WWII Lend Lease program
On 10 January 1941, Draft H.R. 1776 – the “Lend Lease Bill” was presented to the United States Congress. Under the proposed act, the President…
The Surrender of Japan Aboard the USS Missouri
Imperial Japan announced its surrender on August 15, 1945. The surrender was formally signed a few weeks later, on September 2, 1945, halting the hostilities…
Stunning images of bunkers of the Atlantic wall
By Guiie Sandgaard Ferrer. In 1942 the order is given: the creation of The Atlantic Wall, a vast system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi…
OPEN ARMS, CLOSED MINDS AND EYES: CHIEU HOI, PSYOP, AND THE INTELLIGENCE FAILURES IN THE 1968 TET OFFENSIVE
This paper will explore the uses of Psychological Warfare (PSYOP) and efforts made to gain acceptance within the US military during the Cold War, and…
The 10 Of The Biggest Military Planes Ever Built
We’ve flipped through the pages of aviation history to bring you ten of the biggest, heaviest, weirdest and most astounding aircraft ever built. Antonov An-225…
TRAGIC: 10 JUNE, 1944 ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE
By Richard Brook. On 10 June, 1944, men of the 2nd Waffen-SS “Das Reich” Panzer Division came to Oradour-sur-Glane. Located some 460 km south and…
Re-Educating The Hitler Youth (What To Do With The German Boy Soldiers?) – From Yank Magazine, 1945
From Yank Magazine, 1945 Captured Wehrmacht GIs between the ages of 12 and 17 get special indoctrination in democracy at this PW school sparked by…