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Australia will be there. OTD in 1940
As Britain still reels from the Dunkirk evacuation a convoy slips into a Scottish port , its content?
A fighting formation of the Australian Imperial Forces
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Alex parky
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Alex parky
@madeofstone71
Winging it thru life. Stonemason, imps fan ,whippet owner and battlefield/SWPA enthusiast. Love a good bike ride too.
Lincoln, England Katılım Aralık 2015
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Reading. The 2/30th Battalion history.
Not just a book, the owner details what happened to almost all members up to the 1980s.
What's striking is the amount of former Japanese POWs who died within 25 years of the war's end.
9 pages of suffering.
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@East_Approaches @AFCWimbledon We mugged you if I'm honest.
They're a hard grafting team
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@madeofstone71 Congrats on the promotion. I'm an @AFCWimbledon fan, I was really thinking we'd taken a point today.
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A 1-0 win but not today, on to Monday
Alex parky@madeofstone71
Full house. Are the imps going up?
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@RossWCable @James1940 @ww2headquarters @WeHaveWaysPod @hisbpf Just finished his Singapore book and what an eye opener that was. Superb
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@James1940 @ww2headquarters @WeHaveWaysPod Check out the newly published academic version by my mate @hisbpf !
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Just purchased. Surely this has to be made into a t-shirt? @ww2headquarters @WeHaveWaysPod
Ernest Malley 📚🤨@ErnestMalley
A daring story of ten months trapped behind enemy lines on Japanese occupied Timor....with some very solid 1950s cover design to match. #WeHaveWays #IndependentCompany ping @rentaquill
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@MmarianneJoseph I've listened to Keith Bottrell's interview describing the conditions of Owen and the last few survivors.
A young man who showed incredible fortitude.
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Owen is my family connection to prisoners of war of the Japanese in WWII. I found it difficult to read his story and when I wrote about him for Anzac Day last year, I left out the most harrowing details of his final day. Rest in Peace Owen. You have not been forgotten.
Margaret Joseph@MmarianneJoseph
It is hard to express the silent grief Australians suffered over their young people's brutal captivity in WWII. My dad remembers as though it was yesterday the 1962 lunch when his mother spoke of her cousin Owen who died on the Sandakan Death March. She never mentioned him again.
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A single episode of the outstanding radio series of the 80s .
Hundreds of ex POWs were interviewed, the last 8 mins discuss the character of Blackjack Galleghan @AndyAitcheson
Available on audible I think
Australians Under Nippon abc.net.au/listen/program… via @ABCaustralia
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@Angrybudgie @almurray @KarlJames_1945 @James1940 Not bad but a bloke could make a fair bit more profit selling Jeep parts as Japanese swords. @madeofstone71 has made a study of it in fact!
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Sorry all the ETO folk out there...the results are in. #WeHaveWays @almurray @KarlJames_1945 @James1940
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Reading.
The history of a Malaya campaign battalion.
Don Wall's description of the chaos of the fight for Singapore island is epic,all too often ending in a group/soldier never being see again.
He then follows the men of the 2/20th into captivity.
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@lowlandsapien Sparrow Force on Timor would be a great film, independent company v IJA
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Though im actually very keen for this movie, we have a heap of WWII movies to make in Aus still.
- The rescue of JFK.
- The rescue of the American pilots holed up with Dayaks, landing on a bamboo runway in the jungle surrounded by dangling Japanese heads.
- Rai Raiwala and the NT Special Recon Unit
constans@constans
I love how Saving Private Ryan basically killed the WWII battle movie because there was “nothing left to do” and now WWII movies are like “the brave WWII historians who saved museum erasures” and “the weathermen of WWII who saved freedom”
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A very impressive list of Australian prisoner interviews used in the new documentary. I hope it gets international release.
cdn.prod.website-files.com/68c31ff4aa357a…
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@madeofstone71 Yes, a member of the Singapore Volunteer Corps and fought in the defence of Singapore. Imprisoned at Changi and sent with the British forces to Songkurai. Not many survived that camp.
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@vdcaustralia Interesting to see the Owen gun had filtered down to them
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March 27, 1943: Members of the South Australian VDC (4MD) at Beaumont (Adelaide) - 'The "attack" forms up' #SouthAustralia #VDC #WW2 🇦🇺
Image source: collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+624…
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@kristenauthor @KarlJames_1945 As someone who spends way too much time listening to these interviews in the AWM archive I'm pleased they're getting the recognition they deserve.
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@madeofstone71 @KarlJames_1945 An untold story that has been told many times before? But it is always good to be reminded.
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An interesting new production, I'll be interested to hear opinions if anyone gets to see it
youtu.be/L0tWp9CYjp4?si…
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