Content on World War II 1939-1945

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Map of Malaya (Image)

Map of North Africa (Image)

Map of the Burma-Thailand railway

Map of the Hellfire Pass area

Map of the Hellfire Pass area were the most common type of engineering task along the Thai-Burma railway, ranging from small earthworks to massive artificial hills rising out of the jungle.

Map of the Mediterranean (Image)

Massacred at Laha ...

In May 1942, Brigadier A R Allen, 3rd Infantry Brigade, was appointed President of a Court of Inquiry held in Melbourne in order to 'report and inquire on the facts and conditions associated with t

Maurie Deed - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Maurie Deed - World War II veteran (Video)

Allan Morris 'Maurie' Deed enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on 9 May 1940. He served as an aircraft hand and later as a motorcyclist and a fitter.

Maurie O'Keefe - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Maurie O'Keefe - World War II veteran (Video)

Maurice (Maurie) Anthony O'Keefe enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in October 1942 at the age of 18.

Medical Air Evacuation 1941-1945: History in Focus (Fact sheet), (Educational)

This education resource encourages inquiry learning and discussion in the classroom. During World War II, troops were travelling over great distances. Armies needed a fast way to evacuate the wounded…

Medical improvisation

For bedpans we used tin cans, old mess tins, half coconut shells and troughs or pots made from large bamboo. Toilet paper was the large leaves from nearby trees.

Medics attacked

The Australian 2/4th Field Ambulance had cared for wounded and sick troops during the long advance over the Kokoda Track. By 5 November 1942, the unit had worked their way up to Kokoda itself.

Men of Timor

Mervyn Mason - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Mervyn Mason - World War II veteran (Video)

When Japan entered the war in December 1941, Merv Mason was a trainee fitter and turner in the workshop of Cam & Sons Pty Ltd in Sydney.

Mervyn Reece - Devastation of German cities (Oral history)

Mervyn Reece - End of the war (Oral history)

Mervyn Reece - End of the war (Video)

Merv Reece joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in February 1943. He was the third generation in his family to enlist during wartime.

Mervyn Reece - Devastation of German cities (Video)

Merv Reece joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in February 1943. He was the third generation in his family to enlist during wartime.

Messenger dogs (Video)

Film sequences showing the training and use of messenger dogs in the forward areas occupied by the 2/27th Battalion near the Faria River in the Ramu Valley. 21 October 1943.

Michael Bell, Indigenous Liaison Officer, Australian War Memorial (Audio file)

The 3-nine-39 radio and video series tells the untold stories of veterans, widows and family members from the Second World War.

Mick Rudkins - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Mick Rudkins - World War II veteran (Video)

Mick Rudkins enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in Brisbane on 7 March 1941.

Milne Bay

Milne Bay is located on the south-eastern tip of Papua. Before World War II, most of the area's inhabitants were local Papuans, the only Europeans being a few missionaries and plantation managers.

Milne Bay 1942 (Book)

This commemorative publication is a part of the series; Australians in the Pacific War. It explores the role of Australians during the conflict at Milne Bay 1942. 

Milne Bay Airfield

Milne Bay is on the eastern tail of New Guinea...

Mission Ridge - Brigade Hill from the air (Video)

Mister Doughboy (Audio file)

Mister Doughboy by Jack Davey

Mixed feelings as POWs waited to be released

Every day that Australians spent as prisoners of war they longed for freedom. They thought about family and friends at home and just hoped to survive for the end of the war.

More war work

Large numbers of women were employed in industry, agriculture and other areas of employment that had previously only been available to men.

Mostyn Berryman

Early life Moss Berryman was born in Kent Town, South Australia, on 9 November 1923. He attended primary schools at Glencoe and Mount Gambier and then Mount Gambier High School.

MR. CHIFLEY'S BROADCAST (1945) newsclip (Image)

This article tells us about the Australian Government's formal announcement of the end of World War II. You can use newspapers as a primary source in research to help understand public opinion about…

MUNITIONS WOMEN CEASE WORK (1943) newsclip (Image)

This article tells us about an industrial strike by female munitions workers in Melbourne.

Murray Willing - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Murray Willing - World War II veteran (Video)

Murray Willing enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) at Wallaroo, South Australia, in March 1940.

Museums

The history of the Burma-Thailand railway is explored in of a number of museums in

Myola 2 from the air (Video)

The Australians air dropped supplies at Myola 2

Nancy Wake: Stories of Service (Video), (Student activity), (Educational)

Spies played a vital role in the Second World War. In France, a spy network known as La Résistance collected data for the Allies and disrupted the occupying German forces. This tells the story of…

Navy: Victory in the Pacific Day Poster 2020 (Poster)

We've created this poster to commemorate those who served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II. RAN ships sailed most of the world's seas and oceans during the war and were involved…

New Britain 1941-1945 (Book)

This commemorative publication is a part of the series; Australians in the Pacific War.  In telling the story of the long war in New Britain, this book goes beyond the first days of battle and…

New Britain and Timor

Then there was nothing. Dead silence. All I got was a telegram saying he was missing.

NLA 535025469 (Image)

NLA News page 4721561 (Image)

NLA News page 4721938 (Image)

No. 467 Squadron (Image)

Norm Dillon - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Norm Dillon - World War II veteran (Video)

Norm Dillon enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in 1941.

Norman Anderton - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Norman Anderton - World War II veteran (Video)

Norman joined the army in Sydney in 1940 at the age of 19, and served in the 8th Division Signals.
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