Judgement in Darwin24/1/2018 Japanese War Crimes Trials, Darwin 1946. Authorby Norman Cramp It is not commonly known that shortly after the cessation of hostilities in World War Two, 19 Japanese military personnel were tried in Darwin for war crimes perpetrated against Allied service personnel. The trials, conducted in the Officers’ Mess, Larrakeyah Army Base between March and April 1946, covered war crimes carried out on the island of Timor between 1943 and 1945 and were the only such trials conducted on Australian soil.  AMF Military Tribunal members at the ‘Bench’ during the trials.
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Catching a kip, Navy style17/1/2018 By Dr. Tom Lewis Dr. Tom Lewis OAM is a military historian. His latest work is The Empire Strikes South, the story of the Japanese aviators who died across the Top End in WWII.  Sailors in hammocks, probably circa WWI or before. (Lewis Collection) For centuries, the sailor’s hammock was the usual method of getting sleep at sea for sailors.
They were first used in Christopher Columbus’s ships when his sailors observed natives using them in the Caribbean Islands slung between trees. The name ‘hammock’ actually comes from the Caribbean word hamorca. Darwin Military Museum
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