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Australian troops show off a captured Japanese flag following their victory at Milne Bay, New Guinea, the first Japanese land defeat of the war. September 1942.
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Australian soldiers marching down Broadway in New York during the Second World War.
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Canadian troops of the Carleton and York Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade move inland from the beaches during Operation Husky, Sicily. 1943.
Source: IWM
Source: IWM
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September 25th 1940, Canadian Force Base Esquimalt, BC.
A boarding party from HMCS Prince Robert (F56) captured the German re-supply ship Weser believed to be headed for a rendezvous with the German raider Orion (HSK-1). Operating under false flag, she was intercepted while patrolling off Manzanillo, Mexico in the Pacific.
There is a story about this. It tells the epic woyage of German raiders to the South Seas during the early stage of WWII. In 1940, the raiders Orion, Komet, Pinguin, Atlantis and Kormoran left Nazi Germany by direct order of Großadmiral Erich Reader head of the Kriegsmarine. At this moment, they waged a pirate war as part of Germany's strategy to attack the British Empire's maritime trade on a global scale. Their extraordinary voyages spanned the globe and are maritime sagas in the finest tradition of seafaring.
The 5 raiders voyaged across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans as well as the Arctic and Antarctic. They sank or captured 62 ships in a forgotten naval war that is being told in an excellent book by Stephen Robinson.
A boarding party from HMCS Prince Robert (F56) captured the German re-supply ship Weser believed to be headed for a rendezvous with the German raider Orion (HSK-1). Operating under false flag, she was intercepted while patrolling off Manzanillo, Mexico in the Pacific.
There is a story about this. It tells the epic woyage of German raiders to the South Seas during the early stage of WWII. In 1940, the raiders Orion, Komet, Pinguin, Atlantis and Kormoran left Nazi Germany by direct order of Großadmiral Erich Reader head of the Kriegsmarine. At this moment, they waged a pirate war as part of Germany's strategy to attack the British Empire's maritime trade on a global scale. Their extraordinary voyages spanned the globe and are maritime sagas in the finest tradition of seafaring.
The 5 raiders voyaged across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans as well as the Arctic and Antarctic. They sank or captured 62 ships in a forgotten naval war that is being told in an excellent book by Stephen Robinson.
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England, 1941 - British factory workers enthusiastic for Lend-Lease to Russia pose on tanks they made for the Red Army.
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A British soldier armed with a Sten gun takes cover beneath a jeep during Operation 'Epsom', Normandy, 26 June 1944.
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Vought Corsair F mk.1
The Royal Navy obtained Corsair's from the United States on lend lease in early 1943. Fleet Air Arm pilots were sent to the U.S. for training on these aircraft.
The Royal Navy obtained Corsair's from the United States on lend lease in early 1943. Fleet Air Arm pilots were sent to the U.S. for training on these aircraft.
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Nancy Wake ('the White Mouse'), a prominent figure in the French Resistance during the Second World War, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 30 August 1912. Her family moved to Sydney, where she grew up, when Nancy was just 20 months old. She ran away from home at the age of 16 and found work as a nurse, but a windfall enabled her to leave Australia for Europe in 1932. Wake settled in Paris, working for the Hearst group of newspapers as a journalist.
As the 1930s progressed, the rise of German Fascism formed the basis of many of Wake's stories. In 1935 she visited Vienna and Berlin where the overt and violent anti-Semitism formed in her a desire to oppose Nazism. In November 1939 she married Henri Fiocca, a wealthy industrialist, in Marseilles. Six months later Germany invaded France. Wake and Fiocca joined the fledgling Resistance after France's surrender in 1940.
Her growing involvement in the Resistance saw Wake and her husband assisting in the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees from France into neutral Spain. Fearful of being captured she too fled Marseilles and, after several thwarted attempts and a brief period in prison, Wake escaped across the Pyrenees. In June 1943 she reached England where she began working in the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
After a period of training, Wake returned to France in April 1944 to help organise the Resistance before D-Day. Working in the Auvergne region, Wake was engaged in organising parachute drops of arms and equipment, and after D-Day, was involved in combat with bodies of German troops sent to destroy the Maquis.
Upon liberation, Wake learned that her husband, Henri, had been killed by the Gestapo in August 1943.
Wake’s medals are on display in the Second World War gallery.
Image: Nancy Wake, 1945
As the 1930s progressed, the rise of German Fascism formed the basis of many of Wake's stories. In 1935 she visited Vienna and Berlin where the overt and violent anti-Semitism formed in her a desire to oppose Nazism. In November 1939 she married Henri Fiocca, a wealthy industrialist, in Marseilles. Six months later Germany invaded France. Wake and Fiocca joined the fledgling Resistance after France's surrender in 1940.
Her growing involvement in the Resistance saw Wake and her husband assisting in the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees from France into neutral Spain. Fearful of being captured she too fled Marseilles and, after several thwarted attempts and a brief period in prison, Wake escaped across the Pyrenees. In June 1943 she reached England where she began working in the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
After a period of training, Wake returned to France in April 1944 to help organise the Resistance before D-Day. Working in the Auvergne region, Wake was engaged in organising parachute drops of arms and equipment, and after D-Day, was involved in combat with bodies of German troops sent to destroy the Maquis.
Upon liberation, Wake learned that her husband, Henri, had been killed by the Gestapo in August 1943.
Wake’s medals are on display in the Second World War gallery.
Image: Nancy Wake, 1945
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A sailor of HMS Emperor writes the message “An installment from London” on the bomb mount of a Grumman Hellcat of the 800 Naval Air Squadron prior to the beginning of Overlord, June 1944.
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Australian patrols in Aitape, New Guinea. May 1944.
Photo by Percy Haslam
Photo by Percy Haslam
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WW2 - NORTH AFRICA.
New Zealand Army : Three members of the World War II, Maori infantry in the Western Desert, North Africa. From left to right: P Clarke, T Bryers and W H Cooper.
New Zealand Army : Three members of the World War II, Maori infantry in the Western Desert, North Africa. From left to right: P Clarke, T Bryers and W H Cooper.
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WW2 - NORTH AFRICA.
New Zealand Army : Water point in the field used to fill tank on truck at Burbeita, Egypt. Shows probably members of 18 NZ Army Troops Company. Photograph taken on 30 June 1941 by M Walker.
New Zealand Army : Water point in the field used to fill tank on truck at Burbeita, Egypt. Shows probably members of 18 NZ Army Troops Company. Photograph taken on 30 June 1941 by M Walker.
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WW2- North Africa.
New Zealand Army : Army tank transporter used to roll landing strip for the air evacuation of wounded from desert to 3 G H. Taken in Tunisia in March 1943 by K G Killoh.
New Zealand Army : Army tank transporter used to roll landing strip for the air evacuation of wounded from desert to 3 G H. Taken in Tunisia in March 1943 by K G Killoh.
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Pacific War. New Caledonia.
Platoon of New Zealand dispatch riders at Bourail, an important "Kiwi" army base.
Platoon of New Zealand dispatch riders at Bourail, an important "Kiwi" army base.
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British and German troops manning a checkpoint during a truce to allow refugees to enter Allied lines near Dunkirk in October 1944
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W2- North Africa.
New Zealand Army : Soldiers at the British Army post office in the Western Desert, North Africa, during World War 2
New Zealand Army : Soldiers at the British Army post office in the Western Desert, North Africa, during World War 2
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New Zealand Army : NZ convoy in pursuit of Axis forces during the 8th Army's advance in the Western Desert, Egypt, World War II. Photograph taken November 1942 by H Paton.
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Pacific War. New Caledonia Island.
New Zealand Armed Forces unloading trucks and equipment in Poya Bay, near the Gaiacs Plain airfield, in early 1943.
New Zealand Armed Forces unloading trucks and equipment in Poya Bay, near the Gaiacs Plain airfield, in early 1943.
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Infantrymen of The Lake Superior Regiment (Motor) learning to fire a two-inch mortar. (L-R): Privates S. Folster and Dave Blellock, Sergeant B.W. Wright
Date: November 25th, 1942
Location: Aldershot, England
Photographer: Frank Royal
Source: Library and Archives Canada
Date: November 25th, 1942
Location: Aldershot, England
Photographer: Frank Royal
Source: Library and Archives Canada
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ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.
Operation TORCH: Supermarine Spitfire Mark Vs, reinforcement aircraft for North African units, lined up at Bone, Algeria.
The American soldiers crossing the concrete hard standing are members of the 1st Ranger Battalion, which guarded the airfield pending the arrival of RAF Regiment units.
Creator: Davidson V (Sgt), Royal Air Force official photographer.
Source: © IWM CNA 46
Operation TORCH: Supermarine Spitfire Mark Vs, reinforcement aircraft for North African units, lined up at Bone, Algeria.
The American soldiers crossing the concrete hard standing are members of the 1st Ranger Battalion, which guarded the airfield pending the arrival of RAF Regiment units.
Creator: Davidson V (Sgt), Royal Air Force official photographer.
Source: © IWM CNA 46
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