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Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 22 Apr

At Easter, we went to Nungarin Military Museum to watch them operate a searchlight which was in use during World War II. When first found, the searchlight was in a number of pieces. It was restored over several years by some...

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We're going to light up the night sky

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Apr

Tomorrow, we are heading to Nungarin, a small town in the West Australian wheatbelt. There is a large army museum there that I’ve written about before. Among the hundreds of items is this searchlight which was operational during...

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Remembering 2025’s Losses: Harry Stewart Jr.

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 19 Jan

It’s time to salute another great individual who passed away last year. This is another case of someone you don’t know the name of but you certainly know the reputation of in general. A salute to one of our great fighting...

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Snapshots from Home - a comfort for World War I and II soldiers

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Jan

We watch Antiques Roadshow most afternoons and yesterday a member of the public had brought in a number of photographs complete with forms saying ‘Snapshots from Home’ across the top of each one. During World War I, the YMCA...

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Bullet holes in a harmonium

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Aug

Another instrument that I photographed at New Norcia was this harmonium. The information board said that it was donated to the Kalumburu Mission by a grateful German government. In 1932, two German airmen crashed near there. The...

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Movie: Windtalkers

Bensen32 @Bensen32 (28658) • United States 11 Jul

I watched Windtalkers again and thought I would write a little something if you haven’t seen it. Windtalkers releases in June of 2002, it stars Nicholas Cage, Adam Beach, Christian Slater and Mark Ruffalo. The film is about the...

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Getting messages to loved ones during the war

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Jul

Apart from being in the same museum as the information below, the photo has nothing to do with the discussion. John Charles Peters was born in 1890 and taught in Muchea, Western Australia, for 21 years, before taking over the...

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The things they don't tell you at the time

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Jul

The photo is of a kitchenette that was in the Chittering/Bindoon Museum but doesn’t have much connection to the following, just that it was in the same building. There were several rooms devoted to World War I and II. One map...

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A full day for us tomorrow

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Jun

Tomorrow, we have two functions to attend. Hopefully, we’ll be able to cope with so much activity on the one day. In the morning, we’ll attend a play called 21 Hearts. It tells the story of Vivian Bullwinkel, one...

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Pearl Harbor and Memorial Day

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40849) • Laguna Woods, California 26 May 25

When I took my South Pacific cruise, the ship stopped first in a couple of the Hawaiian Islands. While we were on Oahu, I took a tour of Pearl Harbor. I had been to see the Arizona Memorial in the past, but not the rest of Pearl...

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Australia’s last remaining World War II prisoner of war has died

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 10 May 25

Australia’s last remaining World War II prisoner of war, Arthur Leggett, has died in Perth, Western Australia. He was aged 106. Born in 1918, Arthur first enlisted in 1936. He was a survivor of the Lamsdorf Death March to...

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The USS Indianapolis

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 22 Aug 24

Most people know, at least superficially, about Pearl Harbor, the attack on the US Naval forces in Hawaii that dragged the US into World War II. It was the worst disaster the Navy experienced. However, the worst loss of life at...

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Movie: Oppenheimer

Bensen32 @Bensen32 (28658) • United States 27 Jun 24

Oppenheimer was released in 2023 with a rating of R for sexuality, nudity and language. It is based on the real life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who is often referred to as the father of the atomic bomb....

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Movie: Defiance

Bensen32 @Bensen32 (28658) • United States 14 Oct 23

Defiance is based on a true story of the Bielski brothers in World War II. The Polish Jewish brothers who formed a group and took in other Jews in the forest of Belarus during the occupation by Nazi Germany. The film was released...

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Another look-out post on Ireland's coast

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Apr 23

Can you see the little ‘bump’ on the top of the mountain? This is LOP 59 (Look Out Post 59). It is situated on Achill Island off the coast of county Mayo, Ireland. I wrote earlier about small huts being built around the coast of...

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A World War II look-out post on Downpatrick Head, Ireland

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Apr 23

I wrote about the World War II stone markers on Downpatrick Head in Ireland. On the same headland is a lookout post. The head itself juts into the Atlantic Ocean from the north coast of County Mayo, Ireland. During World War II,...

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Stone markers indicate a neutral country

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Apr 23

During World War II, Ireland remained a neutral country. At many places around the coast, stone markers were set in concrete to let aircraft know they had reached Ireland and a neutral zone. Some of these are no longer visible;...

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Stranded in Australia - Part Two

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Mar 23

While researching more about the group of Vienna Boys’ Choir choristers who became interned in Australia during World War II, I came across a very interesting newspaper article. First some backstory: A week before Christmas,...

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Stranded in Australia - the Vienna Boys' Choir

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Mar 23

I wrote about a ship being confiscated by Australia after World War II erupted. No doubt there are many stories to be told about such vessels but one concerned the Vienna Boys’ Choir. In 1939, a party of 20 choristers, aged from...

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A scoop for a farmer in Western Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382337) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Mar 23

This is the sort of ‘stuff’ I find fascinating about museums but you miss a lot if you don’t stop to read the notices and just walk on by. This motorcycle is a 1938 DKW. DKW seems to have been given a number of meanings;...

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