Australia will be there. OTD in 1940 As Britain still reels from the Dunkirk evacuation a convoy slips into a Scottish port , its content? A fighting formation of the Australian Imperial Forces

And now for a @DWB55 thread on the closing shots. the fighting after the beachhead battles. Things sorted now @almurray ?

The opening shots of the Kokoda campaign, another brilliant thread from the past by @DWB55

An older post and a few days out from an OTD but a great Kokoda thread from Dennis xitter.cf/DWB55/status/131876410…

Syria. June 1942. Bored of life in B echelon of the 2/27th WW1 veteran L/cpl Dick Howes joined the battalion assault. His enthusiasm and questionable french got him the M.M. and the biggest bollocking of his life from the C.O.

Forgot just how good this book was and great to be in the company again of Angus Suthers and the Tasmania/North Queensland combo that was the 2/12th Battalion. An old post. Some of the most iconic photos of the SW pacific campaign. George Silk going in with the 2/12th at Buna.

CSM Athol Shillaker, 2/27th Battalion AIF of Adelaide S.A Fought a private war with captured french weapons in Syria. On return to Australia joined the RAAF as a rear gunner and completed a tour on Bombers and with Pathfinder Force

Beware my tale woe gentlemen . You read one book about Australian soldiers cutting toothbrushes and blankets to save weight ....

The South Australian battalion are down to less than 150 men. Orders from Brigade? Keep attacking.

Another post from the good old days about the Buna fighting. The 2/10th Battalion joins the stoush.

I'm back with 18th Australian Brigade at Buna. A path I've walked before and thought I'd share a post from those days. Don't know why but the indecent haste of the assault still angers me.

BBC News - Woman who clung to Spitfire during Second World War remembered - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm87… A great bit of local aviation history

Australian friends, Is refering to someone as a "joker" a general Australian term or is it more common in South Australia?

Not entirely left the Thai/Burma railway behind. I remember the impression this book made on me when it was published. Casting Bill Paterson to read it was inspired.

And like a pair of comfy shoes I've slipped back into Peter's interviews, Milne Bay and KB Mission.

"Silent" Cyril Clowes describes his lively arrival to take command of Milne force in 1942. As one Australian veteran commented. " if you were going to give the world an enema Milne Bay would be where you'd apply it"

I feel a disturbance in the Military history force. I'd best bone up.

Hit a golden patch for AIF Battalion history finds. The superbly detailed Grim Glory of the 8th Division's 2/19th Battalion. And the mighty Western Australians of the 2/11th Battalion.

Still the daft sod on the end of the rope I see.

Been a few years since I last bought a trench map but couldn't resist this. An paper french 1.5000 august 1915 map of La Main De Massiges. Now site of a superb preserved trenches museum.

A rather special book next. Of the 2500 British and Australian prisoners sent to Sandakan camp only 6 survived. This book is signed by 3 of them.