Journal of the Australian War Memorial articles from June 2001

Journal of the Australian War Memorial archives from June 2001

Robert A. Hall, Combat battalion: the Eighth Battalion in Vietnam.(Book Review)
June 1, 2001... Robert A. Hall, Combat battalion: the Eighth Battalion in Vietnam, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2000, xix + 308 pp., illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index, soft cover, rrp A$29.95. With this book Robert Hall, an experienced,...

Exploring the history of the Australian Army through biography.
June 1, 2001... This article is an edited extract of a paper given at a one-day seminar "The Australian Army: Researching 100 Years of Service" organized by the Friends of the National Library of Australia, Canberra, in March 2001. {1} Biography is a...

The historic war site of the Changi Murals: a place for pilgrimages and tourism.
June 1, 2001... {1} David Lloyd, in his analysis of the origins of battlefield tourism and the beginnings of the mass pilgrimage movement to historic war sites, has described how regular visits to First World War battlefields and cemeteries after 1918 created...

Australian nationalism and the lost lessons of the Boer War.
June 1, 2001... {1} The 1899-1902 Boer War is seemingly forgotten in Australia. There are no living veterans or days of remembrance to remind us of this conflict, which involved a military contribution that pales into insignificance in comparison to the forces...

David Horner, Blamey: the Commander-in-Chief.(Book Review)
June 1, 2001... David Horner, Blamey: the Commander-in-Chief, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998, xviii + 686 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index, hard cover, rrp A$49.95. Australians of my generation--whose parents fought in the Second World War--grew up...

Noel Crusz, The Cocos Islands mutiny.(Book Review)
June 1, 2001... Noel Crusz, The Cocos Islands mutiny, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, WA, 2001, 208 pp., photographs, illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, soft cover, rrp A$24.95. On the night of 8-9 May 1942, a handful of gunners of...

Tom Frame and Kevin Baker, Mutiny!: naval insurrections in Australia and New Zealand.(Book Review)
June 1, 2001... Tom Frame and Kevin Baker, Mutiny!: naval insurrections in Australia and New Zealand, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2000, xi + 283 pp., illustrations, endnotes, index, soft cover, rrp A$29.95. In any disciplined force, mutiny is a serious offence....

Japanese air operations over New Guinea during the Second World War.
June 1, 2001... {1} From February 1942 until July 1944, a war of attrition was fought by the air forces of the United States, Australia and Japan in Papua, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands. Although this period comprises more than...

The naval campaigns for New Guinea.
June 1, 2001... {1} This essay briefly examines some of the major issues surrounding the operations of Allied and Japanese naval forces during the war in New Guinea from 1942 to 1944. The most important point to keep in mind is that the naval campaigns were...

David Stevens & John Reeve (eds), Southern trident: strategy, history and the rise of Australian naval power.(Book Review)
June 1, 2001... David Stevens & John Reeve (eds), Southern trident: strategy, history and the rise of Australian naval power, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001, xix + 303 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, index, soft cover, rrp A$50.00 I have attended countless...