One-eyed pilot soared into the record books
One-eyed pilot Wiley Post not only broke the record for flying around the world, he was the first to do it solo
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Real Robin Hood lost in legend and ballads
Hollywood loves to remake the legend of Robin Hood, with yet another reimaging due out this week. But for all his popularity the man himself remains surprisingly elusive
US congressman’s fact-finding tour to Jonestown was his last
CONGRESSMAN Leo Ryan was famous for his fact-finding missions, but in Guyana in 1978 he went to investigate a religious cult in Guyana with fatal results
Aussie hero earnt VC at Battle of Sattelberg
A TINY village at the top of a hill became a Japanese stronghold that was captured with the help of the VC winning bravery of Thomas Derrick
Agent fooled woman into being a Nazi ‘spy’
WHEN two young women in Britain agreed to help recruit people as Nazi spies they never realised that their Gestapo spy handler was actually an MI5 agent
Air pioneer’s greatest mystery his own death
When an Aero Topografica plane taking off from a Lisbon seaplane base crashed on its way to Madeira it was the sad end to the eventful life of Jim Broadbent, one of Australia’s great lesser-known pioneer aviators.
Midget sub disgorged first Japanese POW
The Japanese midget submarines sent in to attack Pearl Harbor didn’t live up to expectations and then provided the US with their first prisoner of war in WWII
Napoleon’s surprise history in Australia
When explorer Nicolas Baudin landed in Sydney with his ships Le Geographe and Le Naturaliste in June 1802, he came in peace.
Busby Babes perished in Munich plane crash
Slush on a runway thwarted two take off attempts before a third sent the British European Airways plane skidding to a fiery end. The crash robbed Manchester United of some of its best players.
Ivan Milat’s killing grounds 25 years on
A quarter of a century ago two orienteers found a body in the Belanglo State forest sparking a hunt for one of Australia’s worst serial killers.
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