Wartime 99 - Winter 2022

1942 Year of Crisis

Featured articles:

• Remembering Australia's Second World War by Karl James. How we remember reflects and influences what we remember.
• Boys on the Kokoda Trail? by James Morrison. It has often been claimed that many who fought this battle were teenagers – but were they really?
• The stolen artworks of HMAS Ladava by Rebecca Holborn. Three paintings by official war artist Henry Hanke disappeared in 1944. Have they been found?
• A devastating tally by Emily Hyles. A tailplane reveals the extraordinary career of one Luftwaffe pilot.
• Retraining India's eastern army by Robert Lyman. Australian forces passing on their experience in jungle warfare, 1943–44.
• "With a kiss for the censor" by Emma Carson. The censorship of servicemen’s mail during the Second World War put a gag on their relationships with loved ones.
• Life in Fortress Darwin by Bessie Mikelsons. Enduring the Japanese raids of 1942–43 was part fear, part tedium.
• The Wannsee Conference by Paul Bartrop. The extermination of the Jews was Nazi policy long before this infamous meeting in January 1942.
• Rocket science for Australians by Duncan Beard. The Memorial’s V2 rocket has many stories to tell.
• Plus regular features including Reflections, Collection Insights, In the Picture, Behind the Scenes, book reviews and Last Post.

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