Hopefully some closure for some families. Japanese Kokoda remains return home - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) The remains of...
As my contribution to the ANZAC Day 2009 posts, I've got organised enough to post some photos sent to me by fellow member Prison_Care (Clive). Clive...
...she's cracked the 2,000 post mark! Well done, hon, you've done well!
Welcome to CatalinaDave - our 1,000th member!
When Kyt told me about this book and how it had been put together from an unfinished manuscript after the author had died, I’ll readily admit it went...
Well done, David. How's your chainsawing going?
Just watching Antiques Roadshow and there's a lady getting her Dad's logbook appraised - Bomber Command - shot down over Hamburg in 1942 and ended up...
Wanted: Elephant's blitz babysitter - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Northern Ireland's Belfast Zoo is celebrating its 75th...
How brilliant is this? Just a short while ago we were talking about successful businesspeople who can afford to do exactly this. Well done, David...
HMAS Sydney's orders 'a recipe for disaster' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) The author of a book about HMAS Sydney has told an...
Only a few hours drive from home and on the aptly named Shipwreck Coast. AFP: Wreck of first US ship sunk in WWII revealed: researchers SYDNEY...
A good mate of mine sent me this photo of his Uncle Butch (in fez) in front of his Spit "Thelma" in Syria in 1943. Barry, my mate, said Butch flew a...
Would like to know what the girder was built for. Cars saved from monster Ipswich pothole | National News | News.com.au AN underground concrete...
A most impressive museum with many WWI types at its core. http://www.classicfighters.co.nz/index.htm The dioramas the aircraft appear in seem...
Over the years, I've always enjoyed the tales (tall or otherwise) of servicemen and women, particularly RAF, letting their hair down as was their...
The first Australian POW of the Japanese. Came across his story while working on the Skip-bombing thread -...
All this talk about Habbanyia got me following the author of Hidden Victory. I love it when I find a new author but I love it even more when I find...
This is good to see. We've had some recent, although not enough, recognition of the girls in the UK so this is another tribute to those unsung...
NZFPM |Flying Officer Geoffrey Bryson Fisken Fisken was born in Gisborne on February 17 1916, the son of a station-owner. During the thirties he...
While doing some hunting for a particular Kiwi pilot (bio thread elsewhere) I came across a couple of lists of books about/by RNZAF personnel during...
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