The above leaflet attempted to persuade the Australian "Diggers" to abandon New Guinea and go home because their real threat were the American soldiers, to include black soldiers, staged in Australia who were seducing the Australian women while they were dying in the jungle. The leaflet depicts ...
Australia. After circling the harbor, the plane returned reporting "battleships and cruisers" in the harbor. In reality, the largest ship present was the heavy cruiser USS Chicago. The flotilla's commander decided to attack the harbor with midget submarines the next ...
The tank also carried a single Type 92 7.7 mm (0.3 in) machine guns. This was ball-mounted on the right of the bow. Ammunition The 120mm Howitzer was designed to fire 2 types of HE shells. One type had a fuse at the base of the shell, with a soft flat cap designed at its poin...
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Australia, I took them to a local Kendo sword fighting club to show to the Sensei there. He appeared to be very excited and helped me to find out more about the swords by taking off the handles and showing the various inscriptions on the blades. He couldn’t translate them though but ...
Sizeable Japanese communities exist in a number of other Latin American countries, most notably Peru and Mexico. These exist, as with the case of Brazil, due to the immigration restrictions to countries such as the United States and Australia as well as the wealth of agricultural labor opportunit...
In the second half of 1942, a colorful set of code names was developed in the Southwest Pacific Theater by the Air Technical Intelligence Unit (ATIU) of the Allied Air Forces in Australia. The head of the unit, Captain Frank T. McCoy Jr. was from Nashville, Tennessee, and the first fe...
WW2 ship wreck. It is a few minutes drive from the main small town at Omura Beach or a long 1-1.5hr walk and there is a bus stop nearly right in front. The bus runs every hour up until 6:30 pm which makes it hard if you want to go out in the main town for ...
Commonwealth of Australia Representative L. MOORE COSGRAVEDominion of Canada Representative JACQUES LE CLERCProvisional Government of the French Republic Representative C.E.L. HELFRICHKingdom of the Netherlands Representative LEONARD M. ISITTDominion of New Zealand Representative ...
Japanese civilian internment in Australia The history, stories and people Category Archives:Japanese civilian internees Remembering internment #3: Evelyn Yamashita On December 8, 1941, 13-year-old Evelyn Yamashita woke to find that a barbed wire fence had been built around her entire community on Th...