In the Shadow of War – Australia 1942
In 1942 Australia lay in the shadow of war, a shadow on its very doorstep. The victorious Japanese forces had swept right up to Australian territory and the very lifeline […]
Review of PACIFIC 360°: Australia’s Battle for Survival in World War II – by Roland Perry
In reviewing this book I must declare “my conflict of interest” as the author is a personal friend and I had the pleasure of launching this riveting narrative of Australia’s […]
Leading Seaman Ronald Taylor (1918-1942)
Ronald ‘Buck’ Taylor was born in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton on 29 April 1918, the fourth of ten children (six boys and four girls) born to Elsie Taylor (Nee […]
Truimph and Tragedy – HMAS Yarra at War
With the tattered fragments of the white ensign still flying, the YARRA slid beneath the waves at 8 am. Rankin’s defiant gesture, which cost the lives of 117 of the […]
Surgeon Lieut-Commander Samuel Edward Lees Stening DSC VRD RANR
DSC for gallantry and resolution whilst serving in HMAS PERTH lost by enemy action in the Far East on 1st March 1942.- (DSC, London Gazette 19 March 1946, presented by […]
No Contest! The US Navy Destroys Australia’s Special Intelligence Bureau
It happened in ‘Monterey’ a long time ago – 70 years ago this October to be precise, in a block of apartments on Melbourne’s Queens Road. ‘Monterey’ had been requisitioned […]
MHHV 2012 Conference proceedings: Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War
Cambridge University Press will publish the proceedings from the Military History and Heritage Victoria 2012 conference Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War, in November 2012.
The bombing of Darwin 19 February 1942 – The RAAF experience
Shortly before 1000h on 19 February 1942, 188 Japanese carrier aircraft arrived over the port city of Darwin and began attacking naval and civil shipping, harbour facilities and the city […]
