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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
Major Peter Clay crouches in a field with two men.

Mine clearance in Mozambique

In 1994, Major Peter Clay filmed this home movie while deployed to Mozambique.

By Ally Roche

Peacekeeping 1947 - today
Land Rover Series 2A

UNTAG Land Rover

In the late 1950s the Army selected the British Land Rover as its light general service vehicle.

By Shane Casey

Peacekeeping 1947 - today
Members of No. 3 Squadron with one of the parachutes for dropping ammunition.

Dropping in at Hamel

An innovation at the Battle of Hamel was created by an Australian aircraft-industry pioneer.

By Di Rutherford

First World War 1914 - 1918
An old Frenchwoman at the entrance to her brick house, Villers-Bretonneux

Alone in the Ruins

After the battle, war correspondent Charles Bean found an elderly woman alone in the ruins.

First World War 1914 - 1918
X-ray image showing shrapnel in a hand

A glimpse of horror

Many images capture the brutality of war, some more effectively than most.

First World War 1914 - 1918
Australian troops serving in INTERFET pass a group of East Timorese locals celebrating independence.

Exploring East Timor

The official history of Australia’s role in the East Timor crisis.

By Dr David Sutton

Peacekeeping 1947 - today
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
Roy Hodgkinson, 14 Australian Anti-aircraft Battery (Militia) Fixed Defences, Darwin (1942) AWM ART22719

Bombing Darwin 1942

A successful Japanese raid caught the Allied forces unprepared.

By Dr Thomas J. Rogers

Second World War 1939 - 1945
A man with a flamethrower on his back sets fire to the grass as smoke billows ahead.

Assault by Fire

Flame-throwers aroused terror and revulsion, but they came to be used by all sides in warfare.

By Shane Casey

First World War 1914 - 1918