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The D-Day Story Museum – Portsmouth UK
The recently refurbished D-Day Story (formerly the D-Day Museum) in Portsmouth is the only museum in the UK dedicated to Operation Overlord and the 6th of June 1944.
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The Darwin Aviation Museum – Northern Territory, Australia
Some photographs and review after my recent visit to the Darwin Aviation Museum
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The Darwin Military Museum & Defence of Darwin Experience – Northern Territory, Australia
On 19 February 1942, Japanese aircraft bombed Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory. It was the first direct attack on Australian...
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The Dutch Armed Forces Nationaal Militair Museum
The Dutch Armed Forces National Museum, known locally as the Nationaal Militair Museum is located at the former Soesterberg airbase,...
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The Goldfields War Museum – Boulder, Western Australia
The discovery of gold in the Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie region, approximately 550km east of Perth in the early 1890’s led...
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Nungarin Heritage Machinery & Army Museum, Western Australia
Review and photographs of the Nungarin Heritage Machinery & Army Museum in the Western Australian wheatbelt region.
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USS Cobia SS-245. An AirBnB with a difference
The story behind USS Cobia (SS-245) a submarine that sunk 13 ships during WW2 and is now a floating AirBnb
The Aviation Heritage Museum – Bull Creek, Perth, Western Australia
Note: Click on the smaller images to enlarge and read caption information. The North Wing is home to the larger...
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SAS trooper Don Barnby’s Vietnam kit in the Australian War Memorial collection.
I took the above photograph back in 2018 when I flew across to Canberra to check out the Australian...
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The Merville Battery – Normandy, France
Whilst the American Airborne operations on D-Day were concentrated around the Cotentin Peninsula and commemorated at the Airborne Museum and...