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Australian-built Machine Gun Carriers

1/31/2018

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by Jared Archibald

The Age of the Machines

By the end of World War I, machines had changed the face of warfare. Motor lorries replaced animals as a means to transport men and war material to and from the battlefront. Tanks traversed ‘no man’s land’, and aeroplanes brought war to the skies. Machine guns, mortars, and quick-firing artillery were now integral to arsenals, and machines were used to move them quickly and efficiently.
 
This mechanisation of armies continued into the 1930s. The British developed a range of small, tracked, armoured and soft skin vehicles that could be used for a range of purposes including, artillery tractors, machine gun carriers, and armoured observation posts. Australia was closely aligned with British military doctrine and developed its own mechanisation policy that mandated acquiring locally designed and built machines for defence usage.


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Judgement in Darwin

1/24/2018

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Japanese War Crimes Trials, Darwin 1946.

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by Norman Cramp
Director of Darwin Military Museum.

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.
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AMF Military Tribunal members at the ‘Bench’ during the trials.

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Catching a kip, Navy style

1/16/2018

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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.


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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.


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