As the Royal Australian Air Force marks its 100th anniversary we look at the illustrious history of the RAAF, through rare archival footage and in-depth interviews with air force veterans, servicing members and new recruits.
From the ABC
Laura Elizabeth Forster was a trailblazing woman who pushed the boundaries of societal norms to become a respected doctor, surgeon, and researcher.
From our website
Now 100, Owen Cook looks back at his time as a Lancaster pilot during the war as one of the most significant times in his life.
From Australian War Memorial
Matt Anderson has been the Director of the Australian War Memorial for almost a year, but before that, had a fascinating career with DFAT and the Royal Australian Engineers.
From 2CC
Established by the first qualified Australian female electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie OBE, the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC) trained women to be wireless telegraphists and signallers with the aim of releasing men from this work for war service.
From The first WRANS
The first women in the Air Force may not have flown, but they made a great contribution to the war at home.
From our website
The Australian War Memorial will be able to welcome more than 4000 people to the Anzac Day dawn service this year.
From Canberra Times
Images will be projected onto the front façade of the Australian War Memorial to appease onlookers that miss out on limited places for the Anzac Day dawn service and national ceremony.
From City News
He faced Japanese soldiers wielding samurai swords on the infamous Kokoda Track and later introduced canned baby food into Australia. Alan Moore, one of Australia’s last remaining veterans of the Kokoda Track campaign, has died aged 100.
From the Sydney Morning Herald
One band of brothers has walked the length of the Kokoda Track to help shine a light on mental health issues impacting Australia's veterans community and raise money in the process.
From the Examiner
In 1966, a young American journalist named Frances FitzGerald began publishing articles from South Vietnam in leading magazines, including this one. She was the unlikeliest of war correspondents.
From the Atlantic
A bundle of letters handed over to the Australian War Memorial by Auntie Glenda, Lieutenant Reginald Saunders’ daughter, give for the first time an insight into the private life of Australia’s most senior Indigenous soldier.
From the Sydney Morning Herald
On 31 March, the Royal Australian Air Force will commemorate 100 years of service.
From Australian Aviation
Peppered across the Australia landscape are memorials honouring the human cost of war. Now, one Victorian town has erected a memorial to honour the thousands of horses that went to war and never returned.
From ABC News
Thirty years ago, in 1991, hostilities between Iraqi and Coalition forces ended, bringing the Gulf War to a close.
Phoebe Parker has spent her life surrounded by a loving family. Roy McDonald was left at an orphanage. The siblings’ fates were determined by an act that took almost 100 years to uncover.
From ABC News
15th February marks the anniversary of the Fall of Singapore, one of the worst military disasters to befall Australia, and one of the greatest defeats in British history.
From our website
This week marks the 79th anniversary of the Bangka Island Massacre, which claimed the lives of 21 Australian Army nurses on 16 February 1942.
From the ANMJ
Today is the 57th anniversary of the loss of HMAS Voyager off the east coast of NSW in 1964. It is Australia’s worst peacetime naval disaster.
Ms Rhondda Vanzella OAM and Mr Glenn Keys AO have joined the Council of the Australian War Memorial, filling the vacant positions previously held by Ms Gwen Cherne and Ms Margaret&nb
From Dept of Veteran Affairs
In the midst of World War II, Sydney architect John Crust climbed Mount Ainslie to paint a watercolour of the newly-built Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
From the Sydney Morning Herald
The NSW Mid-North Coast town of Dorrigo's 99-year-old cenotaph has been restored after being shattered in a car crash last year.
From ABC News
Visitors to Cohuna’s various service commemorations will benefit from improvements funded by the Federal Government’s Drought Communities Program – Extension.
From the Riverine Herald
17 January 2021 marks thirty years since the start of Operation Desert Storm.
From our website
