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Wartime Magazine (Summer 2007) - Contact: Photographs from the Australian War Memorial collection

Featured articles:

• Leaders in battle. Leadership, command, direction, inspiration - battles cannot be won without them.
• Professional men of war by Garth Pratten. At the outbreak of the Second World War most infantry commanders were part-time soldiers, but modern warfare was too complex to leave in the hands of amateurs.
• 'Misfit' officer in charge of 'misfit' men by Alan Gill. Captain Edward Broughton, a compassionate eccentric was an unlikely military hero.
• Dedication of the veteran's grave by Keith Hooper. If the enemy aliens who enlisted in the Australian Military Forces in 1942 had not decided to celebrate their 50^th anniversary, they would not have known that their commanding officer, Captain Edward Broughton, had been dead for 37 years and was in an unmarked grave.
• Friendly aliens by Walter Kudrycz. The Dunera Boys earned their name by being brought to Australia on the British ship HMT Dunera. 
• Persuader for lasting peace by John Connor. Lieutenant General John Sanderson did as much as anyone to bring peace to Cambodia.
• The battle of Bardia by Peter Burness. Bardia was a baptism of fire for many Australians who would leter go on to lead in war.
• 'True' fighting commander by Nigel Steel. Courageous ‘A1 colonel’, Lietenant Colonel Leslie Cecil Maygar VC ran his regiment at peak efficiency and his sudden death was a shock.
• Air commander by John White. Dick Cresswell planned to be a navigator on RAAF flying boats but became an outstanding wing commander.
• 'American' hero by John Bradford. Imperial regulations limited the Naval Board’s ability to honour appropriately outstanding RAN leader Lieutenant Commander John Morrell Band.
• Camera at war. A selection of images from the Memorial's latest publication, Contact: photographs from the Australian War Memorial collection, by Curator of Photographs Shaune Lakin.
• To Amman with the 6th Regiment by Jean Bou. The first trans-Jordan Raid of 1918 proved to be a costly expedition for one Light Horse regiment.
• Pin-up girl by Madeline Hamilton. The photograph of young Australian bride Linda Browne, was a comfort for lonely servicemen missing home.
• Breaking the mould of uniformity by John Perryman. The RAN’s unofficial badges reflect the spirit of the sailors.
• Thanbyuzayat by Chris Winslow. On the forgotten side of the ‘Death Railway’, 1,300 Australians share a lonely final resting place.
• The Army’s ‘Ugly duckling’ by Karl James. Designed by an army engineer, the Crusader was the oddest vessel operated by the Australian army.
• Winged Demons by Warwick Heywood and Walter Kudrycz. The mystery behind a recent Australian War Memorial poster acquisition could be explained by the artist  Vernon Lorimer’s taste for ‘beauty’.
• Eyewitness: Samichon Valley, Korea, 12–13 September 1952 by Ron McCrindle.
• A mystery solved by Robert Nichols. The third Japanese midget submarine that raided Sydney Harbour in 1942 has been finally located off Sydney’s northern beaches.

Details: Magazine, published 2007.

Format: Soft cover, illustrations, 72 pages.

Dimensions: 29.7 cm (h) x 20.2 cm (w) 0.5 cm (d) / 210 grams.