Friday, December 5, 2025
Latest:
  • Huntsman firing marks milestone
  • RAAF Base Darwin stands firm against Fina
  • Air Force commemorates peacetime sacrifice
  • All aboard for Defence families
  • HIMARS proves to be shipshape

CONTACT magazine

Australia's best free military news site

  • NEWS
  • Poetry
  • Podcasts
  • Fitness
  • Videos
  • Archives
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • Write to us
CONTACT magazine

Exercise Beach Heads

Commander 1st (Australian) Division Major General Scott Winter with participants of Exercise Beach Heads 23 at one of the significant World War 2 sites in Papua New Guinea. Story and photos by Major Mark Vele.
Australian Army History Lest We Forget News 

Walking in the footsteps of history

03/11/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 20253 Views 2 Comments Exercise Beach Heads, Headquarters 1st (Australian) Division, Papua New Guinea, WWII

A contingent of junior officers and non-commissioned officers have discovered the World War 2 battlefields of Papua New Guinea provide

Read more

Hours more reading…

OUR SUPPORTERS…