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2018_Cassie_Spada_Stanley_Charles_Bishop_.pdf
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http://www.aircrewremembered.com/bell-maxwell-heron.html
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On the evening of 14th July 1944, with the D Day invasion in full swing, a massive air effort was being mounted to disrupt German transport links. Having taken off from Binbrock (Lincolnshire-UK) on July 14, 1944, around 9:38 pm, for a bombing mission on the Révigny-sur-Ornain (Meuse) railroad, Lancaster ME755 AR-Z was shot down by a night fighter on the 15th. July 1944 around 02:05, near Chevillon Haute Marne in eastern France.. Only two crew members managed to escape: F / Sgt Brian Francis RAFTERY, Wireless Operator, RAAF, Sgt David WADE, AIr Gunner, of the RAF. The rest died in the crash and are buried at Chevillon Communal Cemetery. ALLAN, ALEXANDER, Sergeant, 562335, RAFVR, Flight Engineer, DICKERSON, KEVIN LESLIE THOMAS, Flight Sergeant, 421578, RAAF, Age 20, Bomb Aimer JEFFRIES, FREDERICK, Flight Sergeant, 1323904, RAFVR, Age 33, Navigator KILSBY, HORACE SIDNEY, Sergeant, 1575038, RAFVR, Age 21, Air Gunner VAUGHAN, WILLIAM ALAN HENRY, Pilot Officer, 421774, RAAF, Age 25, Pilot
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https://www.ww2cemeteries.com/ger-reichswald-forest-war-cemetery.html
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T_ARNOLD.pdf
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17772726
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SA Aviation Museum - RAAF Mount Gambier and No. 2 Air Observers School - History
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War_Hero_Who_Time_Forgot.pdf
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Vinka_Lakic_Endeavour_College_Michael_Cetinich.pdf
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/106206784
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1939_Electoral_Roll_-_Painter.jpg
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BLACK.pdf
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http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1458861/CAMPBELL,%20DANIEL%20GEORGE
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159682920/vincent-john_stephen-jordan
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153523863/frederick-neil-woodland
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http://aircrewremembered.com/langlois-eric.html
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2018_Diana_Hunt_Sister_Anne_Donnell.pdf
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https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/from-prisoner-to-guard--leslie-parish
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P_I_Callary.pdf
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https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/political-battle-1914
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/189161011
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http://www.jalbrecht.ca/625_squadron/map_legend.php
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Electoral_Roll_Furler_ACT_1954.jpg
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Eamonn_O_Farrell-White_2013_John_Alexander_RAWS.wma
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WOOSNAM.pdf
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https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/good-news-from-home
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Anzac_Spirit_Essay_-_Cleve_James_Scott.pdf
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._76_Squadron_RAAF
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https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/south-australians-and-the-anglo-boer-war
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https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068858/document/5556875.PDF
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https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/seven-silent-minutes
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BAKER.pdf
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https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1069150/large/5607489.JPG
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https://docplayer.net/57197404-77-squadron-raf-raaf-airmen-killed-whilst-on-active-service-with-77-squadron-raf-world-war-ii.html
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/collections/home-page-stories/flanders-memorial-garden
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http://aircrewremembered.com/parritt-geoffrey.html
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https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/malaya-borneo-veterans-day
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3 August 2019 THE Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has completed a search and recovery mission in Indonesia for the remains of 10 Australian airmen aboard Catalina A24-50, 76 years after the aircraft failed to return from a wartime mission. Reported missing on 2 September 1943 while on a sea mining operation to Sorong in occupied Dutch New Guinea, the wreckage of RAAF No 11 Squadron Catalina A24-50 was located near Fakfak, in West Papua in April 2018. Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel Darren Chester said the Air Force Unrecovered War Casualties team positively identified the missing aircraft during a reconnaissance mission to the crash site last year. “We are committed to honouring the service and sacrifice of Australian military personnel from all theatres of war,” Mr Chester said. “The RAAF team has concluded further search activities in the field and have reported finding a number of items of interest which require further testing in order to confirm the origin of each item. “The only major recognisable pieces of wreckage were two sections of the wing, engines and propeller, and the empennage (rear part of fuselage) across the top of a ridge. “We are very grateful for the support and assistance provided by the Indonesian Air Force throughout this process, without which this work could not take place.” The Hon Darren Chester MP
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http://aircrewremembered.com/bennett-kenneth.html
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CHOAT.pdf
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5550493
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https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10686640
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/210640154
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‘Back to the old front line,’ called Imlay, as a bloodied messenger raced in. I glanced around the trench as I swung my gun on shoulder. Bright mess tins lay about. There was half a loaf of bread with an open tin of jam beside it, and bloodstained equipment lying everywhere. The dead sergeant still lay massive on the parapet. Other dead lay limp on the trench floor. Wounded sprawled or sat with backs to the parapet, watching us with anxious eyes. ‘You are not going to leave us?’ asked one of me. I could not answer him, or meet his eyes as I joined the party moving down the sap. For some reason I felt the guilt of deserting them was mine alone. Here was a tangle of dismembered limbs and dead men. The air was heavy with the reek of explosives. One man, with his foot blown off, leaned wearily back. He had a mills in his hand with the pin out. He would not be taken alive. Our party – about sixty strong, with our two remaining officers – spread along the German front line, mean with ready bombs and bayonets on the flanks. No other Australian force was left in the Hindenburg Line. Our shells still screamed about the parapet. When this fire died down the might of the German Army would fall again on our outflanked few. Between us and our line stretched masses of brown wire, and fifteen hundred yards of bullet and shell-swept level land, over which for a long time no messenger had lived in attempting to get across. Wounded men stood and sat silent on the upper steps of deep dugouts. I leaned on my gun, pondering the utter hopelessness of the position. A Fritz machine gun sat askew on the parapet. I was forming a project to bring it into action. Word came from the left flank, punctuated by bomb bursts, ‘Enemy bombing back. We have run out of bombs’. All stores of German bombs had been used up by our men. An officers’ voice called clear, ‘Dump everything and get back.’ Discard my beautiful gun? They mightn’t give me another! Our few unwounded climbed the parapet. Heavily I started to climb the steep trench wall where a shell had partly blown it in. I looked up to see Bill Davies standing on the top amid the bullets, with hand extended to help me up. A vast indifference settled on me, as I stood on the parapet. Three yards out a man lying over a strand of wire called, ‘Help me, mate.’ I put down my gun and tried to heave him into a shell hole. He screamed with pain as I heaved, so I stopped. ‘I can’t do anything for you, old chap’, I said, and hoping that I would be forgiven the lie, ‘I will send the bearers back.’ ‘Thank you’, he said. I picked up my gun and walked on. A shrapnel from the enemy flank churned the ground just in front, as I picked my way through the wire. A piece of shell fragment cut my puttee tape, and dropped the folds around my boot. In complete indifference I trudged over the field, making the concession of holding the gun flat so as not to be too prominent. A man reaches a blasé stage after too much excitement. Once I thought of settling down and blazing defiance at the enemy with my last solitary magazine. But the thought of our wounded in the track of the bullets made me refrain. Five-point-nines burst black on either hand, and futile bullets zipped about. They could no nothing to me. Silly cows to try. Someone ought to tell them… George Mitchell's walk was witnessed by hundreds and passed into AIF Legend. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and later commissioned.
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/189737153
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https://heritagedetection.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/hidden-history-of-a-ww2-oven-at-moora/
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C_REYNELL.pdf
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https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/bougainville--november-1944
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https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/the-pow-death-ships
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https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/naidoc-week-2016
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