Sea Fury, Aust. War Memorial
Sea Fury: Australian War Memorial The RAN Hawker Sea Fury Mk11, airframe number VW232, side number 109, on display in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, has an interesting history. Although […]
Month: August 2009
National Museum, Canberra
National Museum, Canberra The National Museum’s architecture is outstanding. It was with some trepidation that this reviewer recently joined the half million or so annual visitors to the National Museum of […]
Nicky Barr OBE MC DFC*
Nicky Barr Book review by Fred Lane Dornan, P. Nicky Barr: An Australian air ace. Allen and Unwin: Crows Nest. 2002. Paperback 281 pp. $16 plus postage. The legendary Andrew […]
Padfield: Sea Power 1788-1851
Sea Power: 1788 – 1851 Book review by Fred Lane Padfield, Peter. Maritime power and the struggle for freedom: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1788-1851. The Overlook Press: […]
Sea Lion: 1940
Operation Sea Lion: Tiger or pussycat? Churchill’s version of Operation Sea Lion, (Churchill p. 273). Operation Sea Lion (Unternehemen Seelöwe), a proposed German invasion of England in 1940, was a […]
Titanic: Letters
Titanic followup letters Cutaway sketch of Titanic. Note the “smoke” from number four funnel. Tom Fisher writes of the Last Log of the Titanic: book review (Newsletter 54 September 2003): […]
Titanic’s last log
The sinking of Titanic Book review by John EllisBrown, D.G. (2001) The Last Log of the Titanic. Maine International Marine: Camden. 234pp $36 (used). The many closet Titanic aficionados out […]
Korean War
The Korean War Book review by Fred Lane Catchpole, B. The Korean War 1950-53. Robinson: London, 2000. 368pp, $22.68. Written from the viewpoint of a British National Serviceman, this book […]
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