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Commander Combat Support Group Air Commodore Veronica Tyler lays a wreath at the Hobart Cenotaph. Story by Flight Lieutenant Kate Davis. Photo by Sergeant Tanya Russell.

History News Royal Australian Air Force

Wartime valour remembered in Tasmania

29/09/2021 Posted by Mike Hughes 237 Views 0 Comments WWII

The 81st anniversary of the Battle of Britain was commemorated in Hobart on September 11 at a remembrance service at

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Air surveillance operators, from No. 1 Remote Sensor Unit, RAAF Base Edinburgh, make up the catafalque party for the Battle of Britain 2021 Commemoration held at Torrens Parade Ground, Adelaide. Story by Squadron Leader Bruce Chalmers. Photo by Leading Aircraftman Stewart Gould.

History News Royal Australian Air Force Veterans

Many remember ‘the few’

29/09/2021 Posted by Mike Hughes 296 Views 0 Comments WWII

Eighty-one years since the “few” saved so many in the Battle of Britain, the famous World War II air battle

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A computer-generated image showing HMNZS Kiwi ramming Japanese submarine I-1 in Guadalcanal on 29 January, 1943. CREDIT: Watertight Productions.

New Zealand News Overseas Pacific Veterans

75 years since only Japanese code books of WWII captured

29/01/201827/01/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4176 Views 0 Comments WWII

Today marks the 75th anniversary of an heroic New Zealand naval engagement – the destruction of a Japanese submarine by

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