Download or read book Guarding the Periphery written by Tristan Moss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Guarding the Periphery: The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951-75, Tristan Moss explores the operational, social and racial aspects of this unique force during the height of the colonial era in PNG and during the progression to independence.

Download or read book Reminiscences of the First Baby Boomer written by Michael B White and published by Australian Self Publishing Group. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using his own experiences, the author sets out to explode some myths perpetrated by later generations that Baby Boomers were an over-privileged, idle, self-indulgent generation that ruined the world. “If you remember the 60’s, you weren’t really there”. Fact or fiction? What role did they play in the transition of Australia from a White Australia, to the multi-cultural phenomenon of today? What influence did they exert on the then colonial territories of Papua and New Guinea in their successful transition onto today’s independent, modern society. Growing up in the Canberra region, spending early years at boarding schools at Galong and Inveralochy and much of his formative years in Papua New Guinea, Michael White explores how the Baby Boomers became what they are today. After retiring from careers in the public Service and then in Private Enterprise, Michael lives in retirement in Ngunnawal with his wife, Christine, and dog, Baxter. He continues his interest in family and military history through his involvement with the Australian War Memorial.

Download or read book The New Guinea Volunteer Rifles NGVR 1939 1943 written by Ian Downs and published by Pacific Press Publishing Association. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Golden Gateway written by James Sinclair and published by Crawford House Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategic Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pacific Islands Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Role of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force written by Paul Mench and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tarra written by Jack Peel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarra describes the 25 years of service provided to the nation by a 125-foot wooden cargo vessel, operated by the Australian Army from her launch in 1945 to her abandonment in huge seas off the north coast of New South Wales in 1965. During the war in the South Pacific, the only mode of transport available to provide food ammunition and supplies to the fighting forces and civilian population to the north of Australia, other than aircraft and pack horses, was seagoing small craft and small ships. The Tarra story follows her launch in Tasmania in 1945, when the ship was employed in dumping ammunition off the east coast of Australia. Based in Newcastle and later in Cairns, she was seconded to the Graves Registration Unit during the establishment of the Bomana War Cemetery near Port Moresby, and then lent to the civil authorities to collect copra from remote islands. Tarra provided the only form of transport for materials and personnel for the construction of the Vanimo Outstation of the Pacific Islands Regiment on the Dutch border in 1952, and she continued to resupply the Company base for the next ten years, making two voyages per year from Brisbane. Tarra and her sister, ship Vasse, played a key role in training soldiers to become sailors, particularly in the Citizen Military Forces and in the development of the Australian Regular Army after the war and during the Pentropic experiment. In declining condition, she was sold to the Societe Marine Caledonian and renamed Milos Del Mar in April 1965. The dramatic rescue of her civilian crew eight months later and her abandonment to sink slowly in rough seas was described on the front pages of major newspapers at the time and by the commander of the Air Force Sea Air Rescue aircraft, thereby completing Tarra's story. Army water transport had been operated by the Royal Australian Engineers however the function was taken over by the newly formed Royal Australian Corps of Transport. Army water transport continues today with landing craft operated by 35 Water Transport Squadron RACT.

Download or read book Defence Report written by Australia. Department of Defence and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Guinea Government written by Brian Jinks and published by Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1971 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Soldier s Soldier written by Jeffrey Grey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly was a renowned soldier and one of the most influential figures in Australia's military history. As Chief of the General Staff during the Vietnam War, he oversaw a significant re-organisation of the Army as he fought a war under political and resource restrictions. In this unique biography, Jeffrey Grey shows how Daly prepared himself for the challenges of command in a time of great political upheaval. A Soldier's Soldier examines Daly's career from his entry to Duntroon in the early 1930s until his retirement forty years later, covering the key issues in the development of the Australian Army along the way. Drawing on extensive interview transcripts, the book provides a compelling portrait of Sir Thomas Daly and his distinguished career.

Download or read book Australian Government Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Images and Process in Urban New Guinea written by Alan Rew and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fieldwork done 1967-1969, chiefly a study of "... an industrial plant and its labor compound": Papuan Manufacturing and Distributing Pty Ltd.

Download or read book War at the Margins written by Lin Poyer and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War at the Margins offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on Indigenous societies. Using historical and ethnographic sources, Lin Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social forms and cultural ideas that laid the foundations for their twenty-first-century emergence as players on the world’s political stage. With a focus on Indigenous voices and agency, a global overview reveals the enormous range of wartime activities and impacts on these groups, connecting this work with comparative history, Indigenous studies, and anthropology. The distinctiveness of Indigenous peoples offers a valuable perspective on World War II, as those on the margins of Allied and Axis empires and nation-states were drawn in as soldiers, scouts, guides, laborers, and victims. Questions of loyalty and citizenship shaped Indigenous combat roles—from integration in national armies to service in separate ethnic units to unofficial use of their special skills, where local knowledge tilted the balance in military outcomes. Front lines crossed Indigenous territory most consequentially in northern Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands, but the impacts of war go well beyond combat. Like others around the world, Indigenous civilian men and women suffered bombing and invasion, displacement, forced labor, military occupation, and economic and social disruption. Infrastructure construction and demand for key resources affected even areas far from front lines. World War II dissolved empires and laid the foundation for the postcolonial world. Indigenous people in newly independent nations struggled for autonomy, while other veterans returned to home fronts still steeped in racism. National governments saw military service as evidence that Indigenous peoples wished to assimilate, but wartime experiences confirmed many communities’ commitment to their home cultures and opened new avenues for activism. By century’s end, Indigenous Rights became an international political force, offering alternative visions of how the global order might make room for greater local self-determination and cultural diversity. In examining this transformative era, War at the Margins adds an important contribution to both World War II history and to the development of global Indigenous identity.

Download or read book The Pacific The Papua Series 3 written by Peter Watt and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a war correspondent covering the Second World War, Ilsa Stahl isn't afraid to be on the front line. But when her plane goes down in a terrible storm over Papuan waters and she is taken prisoner by the Japanese, she has every reason to be terrified. Particularly as they plan to hand her over to the Nazis. When Jack Kelly discovers that his only daughter has fallen into the hands of the enemy, he will stop at nothing to save her. Even if it means risking the life of his only son, Lukas. No one knows Papua the way they do; they may be Ilsa's only hope but time is running out. Meanwhile, Major Karl Mann is sent on a secret mission to Indo China that will see him embroiled in Ilsa's rescue mission in ways he could never have imagined. This sweeping saga continues the story of the Kellys and Manns, following Peter Watt's much-loved characters as they fight to survive one of the most devastating conflicts in history - the war on Australia's backdoor step.

Download or read book The Torch and the Sword written by Craig A. J. Stockings and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1860s, hundreds of thousands of school-aged Australians have undergone military and youth development training in various army cadet programs. This is the first book to tell the cadet story across both time and space in a single narrative, presenting a general history of the army cadet movement in Australia from 1866 to 2006.

Download or read book Pngvr written by Bob Harvey-Hall and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles