In 1993, Prime Minister Paul Keating visited the Australian War Memorial to unveil a newly refurbished Kittyhawk aircraft that had come into the Memorial's collections some months earlier. Also ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Australian troops plough through the mud at Milne Bay after repulsing the Japanese invasion ...

Seventy years after they took part in a major victory during World War II, a group of Australian diggers have returned to Papua New Guinea. The eight veterans aged between 88 and 93 have returned to ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

GREG McGREGOR helped inflict a first setback on rampaging Japanese forces in 1942. Seventy-five years on, his memories of one of the most pivotal, yet often neglected battles of World War II remain ...

Milne Bay is noted for the “Turning Point” battle, the title of Michael Veitch’s excellent book, that took place there in August-October 1942. A substantial Japan naval force landed on the north shore ...

“It’s like fighting tigers in the jungle - a matter of kill or be killed.” 80 years ago, the Herald spoke to members of an Australian garrison which had recently repelled a Japanese invasion force at ...