With the Candain PM Mark Carney visiting #CBR today, here's a recent piece on Australia's shared wartime bonds with Canada that contributed for Legion Magazine: disq.us/t/4z4g8jv
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Phil Craig’s 1945: The Reckoning was my companion on our recent trip to Melbourne & the Great Ocean Road. An excellent Summer read to accompany the many small & independent local beers we sampled. What’s not to like?🏖️ 📖 🍻
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A tragic development. The end of mass market paperbacks.
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85 years ago, the 6th Australian Division captured the Italian-controlled port city of Tobruk, Libya, which later became a garrison for Australian and British forces. In this striking image taken on 22 January 1941, members of the 2/11th Infantry Battalion, having penetrated Tobruk’s outer defences, assemble on the escarpment on the south side of the harbour. -- 📸 Photographer: James Francis (Frank) Hurley Accession number: AWM 005392
Tobruk, 85 years ago today.
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Back to work after my summer reading having caught up on British generalship & the @BritishArmy ☀️ 🏖️ 📖 Thank you Phil Bradley for the reads!
Screenshot from a lecture on the capture of Bardia, January 1941. "The necessity of mopping up carefully was brought out by one incident. In the attack an enemy arty officer was left up a pole OP and some time he continued to direct the fire of his bty on the "break-in" gap." AWM Wallet 27 of 90 - Papers relating to the battles of Bardia and Tobruk, 1941 Berryman, Sir Frank Horton (Lieutenant General, b.1894 - d.1981) Places Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Bardia Area, Bardia Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Tobruk Area, Tobruk Accession Number AWM2020.22.261 Collection number PR84/370 Collection type Digitised Collection Record type Wallet Item count 1 Object type Map, Typescript, Papers Physical description 43 Image/s captured Maker Berryman, Frank Horton Date made 1941 Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945 Source credit to This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government. Description Collection relating to the military career of VX20308 Lieutenant General Frank Horton Berryman, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO, GHQ SWPA, GOC East (Md), 7 Australian Division (formerly 2 Corps, Land Headquarters (LHQ), 2 Australian Divisional Artillery, 5 Australian Field Artillery Brigade, 14 Australian Field Artillery Battery, 18 Australian Field Artillery Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, 6 Australian Division), 1920-1953. Wallet 27 of 90 - Wallet consists of a corpus of documents relating to the battles of Bardia that took place from 3-5 January 1941 and Tobruk, 21-22 January 1941. Collection includes tracings describing troop positions and movements, official reports on the operations of the 6 Australian Division, and handwritten notes.
Today in 'let's make fun of the Italian army, they always surrender at the first opportunity', we have the Bardia edition.
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Another day driving the Great Ocean Road from Torque to Lorne, Apollo Bay & the 12 Apostles - truly spectacular!
Toowoomba-based position teaching into the Bachelor of Communications & Creative Industries. Please share!
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“Ambitious in scope, rigorously researched & forensics in its assessments”, Misfire is “a must read” for anyone interested in the Malaya Campaign in #WWII & the #history of SOF: says me! Congratulations to @hisbpf.bsky.social on his latest 📖 📚
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#Newbook based on oral histories with Japanese-American @USArmy veterans, this book looks @ their translation & intelligence operations in New Guinea & Bougainville in #WWII.
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Looking forward to possibly including you in a future issue of the @AWMemorial’s new magazine WM wm.awm.gov.au ✍️ 📖
The first two issues of the new 'WM' magazine by the AWM courtesy of @karljames1945.bsky.social.
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On 1 Dec 1941 the NZ Division ceased to participate in the battle for Libya as an organised force. Some elements of it would continue to fight, most notably 5 NZ Bde which fought on the Gazala line before being withdrawn. The remaining 3,500 men and 700 vehicles on Zaafran outside Tobruk withdrew.
Great 📖 find on the weekend. 🇦🇺 war correspondent Wilfred Burchett traveled extensively in China, Burma & India reporting on the war. He was later the 1st Western journalist to visit Hiroshima. Post-#WWII, he became controversial figure.
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Front cover of WM issue 2 - the magazine of the Australian War Memorial. Theme is "Stories from the Front".
Issue 2 of our new mag ("WM") arrived on Friday! Some fantastic work inside. If you want to know more, you could always visit wm.awm.gov.au
Can’t wait to see it IRL!
Out of the office today to spend time with @AustralianArmy for the Chief of Army History Conference @ Parliament House. Fantastic keynote presentations from the Deputy Chief of Army MAJGEN Chris Smith.
It’s been a big fortnight of🏃♂️with a PB time for the 1/2 marathon on 2/11 with the @canberratimes Fun Run & the 15km on 15/11 with the Stromlo Running Festival. Mt Stromlo is brutal but the views are spectacular 🍻
Just finished reading @almurray’s 📖. Learnt lots about airborne ops & for the first time the battle of Arnhem made sense to me. Great shout out too to WO Keith Prowd @AusAirForce, a glider pilot with No. 196 Sqn who also flew on #DDay. Prowd was awarded a 🇳🇱 Airman’s Cross.
Terribly sad news. An incredible historian, Tim was always generous & encouraging.
On 25 October 1941 the Axis bagged one of the biggest successes in its interdiction campaign against the Tobruk Run, when Abdiel-Class mine-laying cruiser HMS Latona was sunk by dive bombers on the way to Tobruk.
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OUT NOW! The Series 2 finale has landed. In this special Q&A episode, we tackle listener questions on everything from the performance of the Chinese Army to the sheer scale of American involvement in the theatre. A huge thank you to everyone who wrote in! #ForgottenWarPod #WW2History #QandA
