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The story of the 12 airmen who escaped from Java in an open lifeboat.

A newspaper article about an escape from Java to Australia.

Reference is made to the war in the Pacific and naval victory in the Solomon Islands a year after the United States’ entry into the war. It explains the reasoning behind it and Japan’s weakened state with significant losses to its ships and aircraft.…

Netherlands language newspaper delivered by the RAF. 30 pages of articles and photographs concerning the Royal family, Netherlands forces and other war news.

Churchill compares Australians’ resolve in facing Japanese to that of the British in the Battle of Britain. American reinforcements and General MacArthur named as Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Australia. Australian Prime Minister, Mr Curtin,…

Five Group Newsletter, number 36, July 1945. Includes a foreword by the Air Officer Commanding, and articles on training, signals, navigation, radar navigation, air bombing, gunnery, tactics, Japanese fighter control, air crew safety, accidents,…

Two photographs captioned 'Hickam Field, Pearl Harbour is next door'. Photograph of island from the air captioned 'Good bye Honolulu 2 July '56'. Page annotated 19 Jan '57, 5 a/c of 206 flew west to the Azores, Bermuda, across the States to San…

The leaflet addresses the Battle for Australia against the Japanese with General MacArthur’s appointment as Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Australia and the Southwest Pacific. The Australian Prime Minister, John Curtin, announces successful…

Contains foreword by the Queen of the Netherlands as well as news about training of Dutch paratroopers, the Dutch merchant Navy, the queen and government of the Netherlands in London, an eyewitness account of the Battle of the Java Sea, an item on…

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Written at sea. Starts with some humorous banter. Mentions that the first thing he will get when they settle and but a house is a dog. Writes story of obtaining a snakeskin in Brisbane and that he will be up all night going through the strait where…