OTHER PROJECTS. . .
On 19 February, 1942 an Imperial Japanese Navy A6m2 "Zero" was damaged by a single rifle bullet over Darwin Harbour during the massive airstrike on the town.
The pilot, Flight Sergeant Hajimi Toyoshima, crashed his damaged aircraft on Melville Island, North-west of Darwin whilst trying to land back on his aircraft carrier, Hiryu.
This webpage details the capture of Toyoshima by local Tiwi (Aboriginal) inhabitants, and the leading role which he took during the worlds largest sucessful prison escape, the "Cowra Breakout" in July 1944.
The Lieutentant George Cantello Memorial
This site features the memorial to a single American fighter pilot who took off in his P39 Aircobra from an airfield in Sydney on the 8th of June 1942 to intercept a Japanese submarine that was shelling Sydney with its deck gun.
The B-24 Liberator at War for Australia
A photo reference site containing images scanned from various sources of the Consolidated B-24 "Liberator" bomber, Australia's primary heavy bomber in World War Two and the aircraft which the United States Army Air Force operated from Northern Australian airfields from 1942 to 1945.
The Air War over Northern Australia
To be completed
Contained here will be images and data on enemy and friendly aircraft that fought over and around Australia during World War Two.
"Glen over Sydney" - Japanese aircraft over Sydney
To be completed
The submarine launched Yokosuka E14Y "Glen" floatplane. These aircraft flew over Sydney, Hobart, Auckland and Suva during 1942 in reconnaisance missions for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Flights have been alledgedly flown over Brisbane, and even as far inland as Toowoomba, Queensland.
Native Police
The Native Police are infamous for their brutality and the enormous damage they did to Aboriginal families and communities during the Colonial conflicts for Australia. Led by white officers, these para-military units slaughtered and pillaged Aboriginal communities in mainland Australia for the process of white settlement and colonisation between 1850 and 1900.
This website will feature many images I have collected over the last three years.
To be completed
A small website with some personal pictures of mine taken whilst on exercise or deployment.