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FLTLT John Jack' McKenna RAAF WW2
Ken Aistrope Army 1940-45 Airport Rd Brooklyn Park
Arthur Robertson Army 1942
(Irene) Margaret McGovern
A US C47 Dakota conducts a supply drop at Nauro Village. Supplies were free dropped and suffered high loss rates on impact, and being lost in trees and swamps, leading to an overestimation of supplies stockpiled forward. Mde worse when a Japanese air raid took out most of the available C47s at Port Moresby.
Soldiers of the 2nd/27th Battalion, cut off from the Brigade withdrawal from Mission Ridge, finally regain touch with their colleagues after almost two weeks with very little food. They brought in the wounded of the their own and two other Battalions of the 21st Brigade.
The Australians of the 16th Brigade assemble near Eora Creek in the Owen Stanley Ranges for an attack on Japanese positions near Kokoda. These men at least have Bren Guns, but supply problems thwarted the attempt to retake Kokoda and instead the epic defence of Isurava was conducted.
Damien Parer's cine film of Kokoda

https://aso.gov.au/titles/newsreels/road-to-kokoda/clip1/
Australian soldiers with captured Japanese weapons including the dreaded 75mm mountain gun
Corporal Jim Canty was one of the heavily out-numbered heroes of the 39th Australian Infantry Battalion who blocked the passage of Japanese troops along the Kokoda Track, until relieved by the 16th Brigade.
Colin Richardson at the controls of a Cessna Crane at Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada, 1943
Ernest Joseph Grunert, RAN 1940-45
Theo Dodgson served in the Australian Labour Service Works Companies - 1943-46
Bernard Davey - died a Prisoner of Japan in Borneo Feb 1945
Len Davey served in the RAAF from 1940-1946
Jack Deacon enlisted into the Militia and then joined the RAAF
Ronald Custance RAAF 1944-45
The Plaque at the Moora 4th Battalion Memorial listing the names of 14 members of the 4th Battalion killed during a training incident on 15 March 1943.
Photo of James Walter Steven's gravestone.
Memorial Plaque to the Wuttke brothers Sir Donald Bradman Drive
John Negus' Memorial Plaque Sir Donald Bradman Drive / South Rd Mile End
Doug Raffen's Memorial Plaque Sir Donald Bradman Drive
An 8,000-lb HC bomb ('super cookie') is brought by tractor to a waiting Avro Lancaster of No. 106 Squadron RAF in its dispersal at Syerston, Nottinghamshire. The target on this particular night was Stuttgart, Germany.
Frontal view of Les Clisby's Heinkel downed on 13th May 1940. He captured the crew at gunpoint after landing alongside.
At work with a patient
Carr Withall, far right on the running board, with colleagues at the Larkin AIrcraft Supply Company, Coode Island Melbourne 1934
Letter from VX25596 WO2 A.A. Fyfe CSM B Coy 2nd/3rd MG Bn advising Doug's mother of the circumstances of his death
John Crossman's grave in the Chalfont St Giles churchyard, Buckinghamshire
Squadron Leader (later Group Captain) Des Sheen DFC*
Des Sheen, Battle of Britain pilot and later Group Captain Royal Australian AIrforce
Eric Barton after being selected to travel to France representing Australian Aircrew who flew in the liberation of France during WW2.
Eric Barton at his beloved Cronulla Beach in 2013.
RAAF WW2 and Korea medal set; L-R 1939-45 Star, France and German y Star, Defence Medal, Britsih War Medal 39-45, Australian Service Medal 39-45, UN Medal Korea, Austraoian Service Medal 45-75 Korea clasp, Defence Force Service Medal.
B25 Mitchell medium bombers of No. 226 Squadron
Fairey Battle Light Bombers which were severely mauled in the Battle for France, leading to their withdrawal from operational service.
A Douglas Boston light bomber.
Members of A Company 1st Australian Parachute Battalion, one a training flight in 1944
Darwin, NT. 1944-08-02. Personnel of No. 1 Airfield Construction Squadron, RAAF, building concrete sections of a new concrete airstrip. They are using a new machine from the USA which mixes, lays and finishes the concrete.
Australia Remembers (1995) - John Whitrow's Plaque Sir Donald Bradman Drive near South Rd
FLTLT John Drew WNTWHISTLE, awarded the DFC whilst serving with No 41 Squadron RAAF. Served post war killed in an aircraft accident when the mainplane of Bristol Freighter failed near Mallala on 25th November 1953 killing all on board.
Australia Remembers (1995) - Ray Roberts' Plaque Sir Donald Bradman Drive near Verran Avenue
W.J. Crawford, one of the soldiers photographed in The Queenslander Pictorial Supplement to the Queenslander, page 24.
Mutee Head - No. 52 Radar Station
John Fitzpatrick's Memorial Plaque Sir Donald Bradman Drive / Milner Avenue Hilton
Australia Remembers (1995) Memorial Plaques for Madeleine and Gerald Haslett, Sir Donald Bradman Drive Milner Rd HILTON
A gathering at Australia House in Danang in 1967. From left WO2 J.T DURRINGTON, WO2 P. WHITE, WO2 M. “TEX” SINCLAIR, WO2 D.J. WALLNER, WO2 BRUCE DAVIES, WO2 D.F. FORD, WO2 J.A. BOND, WO2 D.T.POWELL and WO2 R.I. OLIVER. WO2 DURRINGTON and WO2 BOND were late killed in action.
Major Bruce Davies, MBE, MiD
Remembering Ray Paterson 6 Service Flying Training School
Douglas Ogilvie Army 1941-46

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