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Stanley Connolly (Oral history)

Stanley Connolly served with 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment at the Battle of Kapyong.

Stanley Starcevich, John Hickman and Walter Perkins - Enlistment (Video)

Stanley joined the Australian Army due to a lack of employment opportunities in Western Australia.

Stanley Starcevich, John Hickman and Walter Perkins - Propaganda leaflet drop (Video)

Stanley joined the Australian Army due to a lack of employment opportunities in Western Australia.

Stanley Starcevich, John Hickman and Walter Perkins - Effectiveness of enemy artillery (Video)

Stanley joined the Australian Army due to a lack of employment opportunities in Western Australia.

Stanley Starcevich, John Hickman and Walter Perkins - Effectiveness of enemy artillery (Oral history)

Stanley Starcevich, John Hickman and Walter Perkins - Enlistment (Oral history)

Stanley Starcevich, John Hickman and Walter Perkins - Propaganda leaflet drop (Oral history)

Taffy Hughes - Enlistment (Oral history)

The aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney

HMAS Sydney was one of a class of relatively small and uncomplicated light fleet carriers which in Korea operated 24 Hawker Sea Fury and 14 Fairey Firefly fighter bombers...

The Armed Forces in the Korean War

More than three million of these were communists from North Korea, China and Russia. Opposing them were almost three million from South Korea and from 21 United Nations (UN) countries including…

The Art of Remembrance short film (Video)

Explores the role of paintings and sketches that represent the experiences of Australia's service personnel and how visual art can help us learn more about Australia's military history. Rated PG (…

Grace Halstead (Video)

The interview excerpts here are drawn from over 2,000 interviews with Australian war veterans conducted by the Department of Veterans' Affairs. The project, called the Australians at War Film Archive…

Stanley Connolly (Video)

Stanley Connolly served with 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment at the Battle of Kapyong.

Richard Arundel (Video)

The interview excerpts here are drawn from over 2,000 interviews with Australian war veterans conducted by the Department of Veterans' Affairs. The project, called the Australians at War Film Archive…

Kerry Smith (Video)

Kerry Smith recalls visiting the grave of his friend in Korea when the war ended and again 40 years later.

Bill Simmond (Video)

The interview excerpts here are drawn from over 2,000 interviews with Australian war veterans conducted by the Department of Veterans' Affairs. The project, called the Australians at War Film Archive…

Maxwell Veale (Video)

The interview excerpts here are drawn from over 2,000 interviews with Australian war veterans conducted by the Department of Veterans' Affairs. The project, called the Australians at War Film Archive…

The Battle of Kapyong, 23 to 25 April 1951

In late April 1951 three Chinese army groups launched the Fifth Phase Offensive...

The Battle of Maryang San, 3–8 October 1951

Maryang San was the Australian part in a four division offensive called Operation Commando, and the last Australian manoeuvre battle before the war became one of trench lines...

The Cold War and the crisis in Korea

North Korea invaded the south in an attempt to unify the country under the north's government. The attempt failed, and Korea is still divided in two.

The communists advance towards Pusan

At 0400 on 25 June 1950 130,000 North Korean (KPA) soldiers supported by 200 tanks, SU76 assault guns and 600 artillery guns, crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea...

The Korean War

It was the first major war of a larger conflict, the Cold War.

The Korean War: History in Focus (Fact sheet), (Educational)

This teaching activity resource is to encourage discussion and further learning. The genesis of the Korean War occurred four decades before 1950, when Japan annexed Korea in 1910. More than 17,…

The Many Days of Anzac short film (Video)

A history of Anzac commemoration in Australia. This documentary film dives into the ABC archives of Anzac Day coverage to tell the story of how Australians created Anzac traditions and rituals by…

The RAAF in Japan

The Royal Australian Air Force Squadrons based in Japan were 36 Transport Squadron, flying the Douglas C-47, and 491 Maintenance Squadron whose task was to repair and service RAAF aircraft...

The support base in Japan

The base should not be in the war zone but not too far from it either. The United Nations Command (UNC) was very fortunate in having Japan within two hours flying and twelve hours by sea from the…

The theatre of war

The Korean Peninsula is 856 kilometres long, bordered by the Sea of Japan* in the east, the Korea Strait in the south and the Yellow Sea to the west.

The United Nations counteroffensive to the Yalu

The United Nations Command (UNC) held on to the Pusan Perimeter and built up their strength there. In mid-September 1950 they broke out at the same time as another UNC force landed at Inchon near…

The war begins - the invasion of South Korea

The Soviet Union (USSR) supplied weaponry, trained the North Korean armed forces and its experienced WWII generals devised the plan for the invasion. When the Chinese communists under Mao Zedong won…

Transport Command: History in Focus (Fact sheet), (Educational)

This education resource encourages inquiry learning and discussion in the classroom. British Transport Command played a vital support role during World War II and in the post-war decades. Originally…

Trench warfare and patrolling between the lines

When their fifth offensive failed in May 1951 the communists abandoned a war of movement and engaged the United Nations Command (UNC) in positional warfare...

United Nations drives north (Inchon)

On 7 August the KPA began a series of assaults against the UN Pusan defensive perimeter....

United Nations forced to retreat south

The Chinese military in Korea were known as the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV)...

United Nations Forces in the Korean War

Following the invasion of South Korea by North Korea, twenty-one member nations of the United Nations (UN) committed themselves to support South Korea which was not yet a member nation...

Using Primary and Secondary Sources: Handy History Hints (Video), (Educational)

Hear from DVA's historian Emma Campbell about the difference between primary and secondary historical sources, when she finds them most helpful, and some credible Australian sources for military…

We Remember Anzac (Primary Resource) (Book), (Student activity), (Teacher notes), (Educational)

The publication provides an Order of Service and step-by-step instructions to assist teachers and community groups to organise a respectful commemorative event. This publication encourages a greater…

We Remember Anzac (Secondary Resource) (Book), (Student activity), (Teacher notes), (Educational)

The publication provides an Order of Service and step-by-step instructions to assist teachers and community groups to organise a respectful commemorative event . The publication encourages a greater…

What was the Cold War

The Korean War was fought in the context of the Cold War, a 44-year period of conflict which began in 1947...
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