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General Douglas MacArthur and Prime Minister John Curtin, 1943

The Final Campaigns

Australian forces were more engaged in 1945 than in any other year of the Second World War.

By Dr Karl James

Second World War 1939 - 1945
General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim and other senior officers arrive at Trent Park

The Walls Have Ears

Eavesdropping on German prisoners in England provided crucial intelligence.

By Dr Helen Fry

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Side profile portrait of Adolf Hitler.

Hitler as military leader

By his own account a genius, was Hitler chiefly responsible for Nazi Germany's military defeat?

By Sir Richard J. Evans

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Painting by Roy Hodgkinson, titled Americans and Aborigines.

The Flying Bunyips

An American squadron that recognised the support of the Aboriginal community.

By Garth O'Connell

Second World War 1939 - 1945
An ornate and fastidiously decorated fascist eagle clasping a Roman fasces, from which are suspended the symbols of the three Axis allies, each contained within a decorated wreath - from left to right, the Nazi swastika; the Italian arms and the Japanese 'rising sun' flag.

An Axis ornament

Trench art created at the POW camp in Cowra, NSW.

By Kerry Neale

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Reg Saunders and Tom Derrick shake hands after graduating from the Officer Cadets Training Unit

In his own words

The combat diaries of Diver Derrick

By Dr Mark Johnston

Second World War 1939 - 1945
A group of seven Australians standing around a microphrone. Squadron Leader James Catanach is in the centre.

The Great Escape

The Great Escape, the largest Allied prisoner of war breakout of the Second World War.

Second World War 1939 - 1945