The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A kinescope recording on 16mm film of a GTV9 report on the announcement of the resignation of Captain John Philip Stevenson. Captain Stevenson was the commanding officer of HMAS Melbourne during the Melbourne's collision with the USS Frank E Evans on 3 June 1969. He was court martialled for two charges of negligence and which were subsequently dropped and he was honourably acquitted. There was much speculation by observers as to the reason why Captain Stevenson resigned, the mostly likely of which was that he felt he was a victim of circumstances. This item in includes a lengthy interview with Jim Killen the then Minister of the Navy on the Captain Stevenson case and how it affects the Navy.
Decommissioned battleship USS Alabama on display at Battleship Memorial Park Mobile, Alabama. USN North American T-28 Trojan trainers and pilots at US Naval Air Station Barin Field, Foley Alabama 19 O
A kinescope recording on 16mm film of an item from the NBC televsion's Jack Paar Program on the PT-109 commanded by Lieutenant John F Kennedy the then current President of the United States of America
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24
Collection relating to the service of Captain Albert McLeod, 16 Battalion, AIF, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, 1914-1916. Collection consists of photostat copies of a diary kept by McLeod, a lengthy obitu
A Valentine's Day special segment from the variety television show 'Bobby Limb's Sound of Music' has Bobby in the Channel 9 studio with the wives of servicemen currently deployed to Vietnam. Several
Scene 15 take 1. The reason he joined the Australian Army was that he was previously in the Citizen Military Forces thought it was great fun and that he was in a ‘dead end job; how he became a Nationa