Wartime 49 - Autumn 2010

Victory & Defeat

Featured articles:

• Victory and defeat: The Australian experience, 1939-41 The Australian experience in the first years of the Second World War: on the ground, in the air and at sea, in victory and in defeat.
• How Bardia was won: by Craig Stockings. The myths of Australian invincibility should give way to better-informed explanations.
• 'The kind eyelids of night hid my tears’:  by Jenifer Selby, A letter by Dr Tom Selby gives an insight into the human side of the Australian victory at Bardia.
• Artist in the aftermath: by Lola Wilkins, Ivor Hele’s immense canvas provides a valuable record of the evacuation of Greece in 1941.
• Heroes of Tobruk: by Peter Burness, The Australians demonstrated determination and courage at Tobruk and showed that aggressive patrolling was the best form of defence.
• The first kill: by Karl James, No. 10 Squadron, RAAF, was the first Australian unit to go to war in 1939 and quickly went into action, hunting German U-boats.
• Recovering the past: by John Perryman, Finding lost wrecks is also a way of honouring those who served in them.
• 'Tell her the baker’s enlisted’:  by Martin Hadlow, From old recordings, members of the Second AIF recall their departure for the Middle East in 1940.
• A tale of two weddings:  by Rebecca Britt, Many couples decided to marry before the war could sweep them apart.
• Here is their spirit: An address given by General Peter Cosgrove AC MC (Ret’d) at the Australian War Memorial on Remembrance Day, 2009.
• Doughboys and the breaking of the Hindenburg Line: by Mitchell Yockelson, The Americans may have been green, but they were splendid men.

• Flying close to the sun:  by Ken Peacock, Australian pilots in the North Africa campaign improvised and lived rough in desert conditions. 

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