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Anzac Centenary

04/11/09 - Anzac Descendants for the Remembrance Anzac360.  Henry Sandercock 1944.Picture: Tom Huntley
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Covered up to hide the horror

Alan’s wife never truly knew what became of her husband — part of what his South Australian family believe was a bid to hide a horror of unbelievable magnitude and a shocking failure to save the victims.

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Death Railway veteran James Kerr watches the Anzac360 VR film of Hellfire Pass, at his home in Melbourne with Justin Lees of News360. Picture: Maxim Drygin.

War vet returns to hell in VR

Two veterans of the darkest chapters in our history have used virtual reality to revisit the places they called Hell. Now they want other Australians to do it, saying “everyone should watch this”.

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Warrant Officer John Kinder, the only airman to die amongst the Sandakan Death March captives, seen as a hero by his fellows.

The most beloved of doomed heroes

John Kinder had the dashing looks of a movie star; but it was his extraordinary courage, defending emaciated, dying men against their brutal captors, that made him a real hero.

‘Australia would have been isolated’

‘Australia would have been isolated’

D-DAY happened a world away from Australia’s struggle against Japan — but if it had failed, as top brass secretly feared, we would have been alone. This is why June 6 matters.

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Plan for ‘creepy’ burial plots rejected

Plan for ‘creepy’ burial plots rejected

AUSTRALIA wanted to honour its more than 8000 soldiers lost on the Western Front with fake burial plots in a plan author Rudyard Kipling branded “creepy” and fought to block.

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