Hi, I hope this is the right place! Im trying to trace my dad's birth parents. I have no names, just some vague details. But hopefully they will...
Hi everyone, Some of you might be interested in my recently created Facebook page on New Zealanders in the Italian Campaign (1943-1945). The page...
During September and October 1944, long after the D-Day landings of 6 June in France, the Allied troops in Italy were still fighting a much less...
Much well merited praise was often bestowed on the fine output of the Army film and Photographic unit and that of the official photographers...
Although New Zealand lied at the other end of the world, so far away that her people had no need of black-outs, gas masks, or air-raid shelters,...
Australian-born, Savage came to New Zealand in 1907 and quickly rose through the ranks of the Auckland trade union movement. He was elected to...
During the first world war,India was still a non-independent country.It was under the control of British rule.But it indirectly involved itself in...
Just wanting to know if anyone had some good references that could be used in relation to the Empire Air Training Scheme that involved British,...
Just for topic discussion, why didn't Japan Invade New Zealand or Australia? Too much land and not enough resources, not feasible to launch...
The Gallipoli operation cost Australia 26,111 casualties, 8,141 dead, New Zealand 7,571 casualties, 2,431 dead, Britain 120,000 casualties, 21,255...
without a dowt in the world i think Saving Private Ryan is the best war film off all time and it has been voted the best War of all time
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, using the false pretext of a faked "Polish attack" on a German border post. On September 3, the...
[img] Operation "Neptune/Overlord" were the code names for the 6 June 1 944 D-Day Landings on the Normandy coast of German-occupied France....
Charlotte Gray's daughter launches operation to save SAS clubThe daughter of wartime secret agent 'Charlotte Gray' is fighting a battle of her own...
In command of the first New Zealand Contingent that arrived at Suez on February 12 was Major General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, V.C. D.S.O., who had...
Leader of New Zealand's magnificent war effort, Mr. Savage had been Prime Minister of the Dominion's Labour Government since 1935. He was New...
Lord Chatfield was right when he expressed the opinion in the House of Lords that the Graf Spee would soon put out to sea again, for a short time....
Military operations are thick with codenames, acronyms and nicknames that need explaining to the layman. Unfortunately, the written history of...