Just before midnight on 7 December 1941, Flying Officer Peter Gibbes stepped off the train at Kota Bharu on the coast of northeast Malaya after a long, tiring journey up the peninsula from Singapore. Gibbes, an airline pilot in peacetime, had been newly posted to the Royal Australian Air Force’s 1 Squadron, which in the ensuing hours would become the first Australian military unit to see action in the Pacific War.
This video vividly tells the story of Australia’s first action of the Pacific war.
This excellent video was created by the Australian Military Aviation History Association. See more of their great videos and information here.
The End of Apartheid
THE END OF APARTHEID Racial divisions emerged in South Africa as early as the 1600s, due to Dutch settlement. It began with the Europeans maintaining segregation and hierarchy between themselves, their slaves (many from Asia), and local African populations. Once the Cape of Good Hope was seized by the British during the Napoleonic period, race-based policies in […]
General History Quiz 186
1. When did the Spanish Inquisition begin?
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Henry the Seventh – Audiobook
HENRY THE SEVENTH – AUDIOBOOK By James Gairdner (1828 – 1912) Henry VII, the founder of the Tudor dynasty, less known than his son, Henry VIII, or granddaughter Elizabeth I, is often overlooked. This King toppled the ruling House that had held England’s throne for over four hundred years, the Plantagenets, and took a divided, war […]
