This documentary explores the history of Australian military aircraft manufacturing. Australia had just completed its industrialisation in 1939, becoming a full war economy very rapidly.
This excellent video was created by the Australian Military Aviation History Association, a not-for-profit association which records, preserves and promotes Australian military aviation history.
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1. Which group was the main challenge to Greek power in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Greek golden age?
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Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous history – but we’re using new techniques to get it right
By Sturt Manning, Cornell University. Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the century from then until 1609 marks the creation of the modern globalized world. This period brought extraordinary riches to Europe, and genocide and disease to indigenous peoples across the Americas. European expeditions to the Americas During […]
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