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Baniff Strike Wing attacking

The fight for Norway’s Skies

The dangerous conditions faced by the Australian and British crews of Coastal Command.

By Cait Tullis

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Japanese troop medical supplies. AWM P02443.004

Hospitals of death

The Japanese medical system in Papua created immense suffering for staff and soldiers.

By Dr Steven Bullard

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Matron Muriel Doherty, RAAFNS, Alfreda Markovitch, 1948, oil on canvas

Nurse at Bergen-Belsen

After the war, an Australian nurse served with the United Nations at the infamous camp.

Second World War 1939 - 1945
A letter after it was censored, AWM 139314

With a kiss for the censor

Censorship of servicemen’s mail during the Second World War put a gag on their relationships.

By Emma Carson

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Pioneers of the First Battalion building thunderboxes, August 1915.

Thunderboxes & Flies

Poor sanitation on Gallipoli was a silent killer on the battlefield.

By Jennifer Selby

First World War 1914 - 1918
Corporal Rachel Ingram

Definitely Not Cooks

In the modern era, women have forged outstanding Army careers as photographers too.

By Jennifer Selby

& Meleah Hampton

Afghanistan 2001 - 2021
A.H. Fullwood, Chateau at Ham-sur-Heure (1918). ART02450

Art in a time of war

The experience of 1914-18 seen through the eyes of Australian artists

By Claire Baddeley

First World War 1914 - 1918
Napier Waller, In the trenches (c. 1918, watercolour on paper, 24 x 36 cm). AWM ART94646

Artist in the Trenches

Napier Waller served with the artillery in the First World War.

By Ann Ashton

First World War 1914 - 1918