Voices from the Air (39 page)

11
    
John Elliott despatch, 11 June 1945, NAA

12
    
Frank Legg script,
Pleasure Cruise to Brunei
, 15 June 1945, SLNSW

13
    
Colonel Diller cipher message, 4 July 1945, NAA

14
    
John Elliott letter to Robert McCall, 15 May 1945, NAA

15
    
John Elliott
News Commentary
, broadcast 22 May 1945, NAA

16
    
John Elliott script,
The Story of the Manila Tribune
, 23 May 1945, NAA

17
    
John Elliott cable, quoted in Madden (Army PR) letter to Robert McCall, 29 June 1945, NAA

18
    
John Elliott despatch,
Cobra One
, 1 July 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese), NAA

19
    
Len Barsdell, DOI Liaison Officer, letter to Robert McCall, 10 July 1945, NAA

20
    
Len Barsdell, DOI Liaison Officer, letter to Robert McCall, 10 July 1945, NAA

21
    
Frederick Simpson letter to Sydney Deamer, 10 July 1945, NAA

22
    
Alan Laing letter to the ABC, 4 August 1945, NAA

23
    
Frederick Simpson despatch,
Battle Background – Samarinda Road
, NAA

Chapter 16

1
      
Haydon Lennard cable despatch, 6 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

2
      
Haydon Lennard cable despatch, 5 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

3
      
Haydon Lennard cable despatch, 5 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

4
      
Haydon Lennard cable despatch, 5 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

5
      
Haydon Lennard cable despatch, 5 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

6
      
Haydon Lennard cable despatch,
Roundup Three
, 5 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

7
      
Haydon Lennard cable despatch,
Roundup Nine
, 5 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

8
      
Haydon Lennard despatch,
Ferry
, 5 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

9
      
Haydon Lennard despatch,
Roundup Ten
, 5 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

10
    
Haydon Lennard cable, 14 September 1945, NAA

11
    
Haydon Lennard cabled despatch, 16 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

12
    
Haydon Lennard cabled despatch, 16 September 1945, NAA

13
    
Haydon Lennard cabled despatch, Nurses One, 16 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

14
    
Haydon Lennard cabled despatch,
Add Nurses Three
, 16 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

15
    
Haydon Lennard cabled despatch,
Nurses Two
, 16 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

16
    
Haydon Lennard cabled despatch,
Nurses Three
, 16 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

17
    
Haydon Lennard cabled despatch,
Nurses Five
, 16 September 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

18
    
Note to Frank Dixon, 6 September 1945, NAA

19
    
Haydon Lennard cable, 9 September 1945, NAA

Chapter 17

1
      
Frank Legg,
War Correspondent
, Rigby, Adelaide, 1964, p 251

2
      
Frank Legg,
War Correspondent
, Rigby, Adelaide, 1964, p 237

3
      
Frederick Simpson script,
The Surrender of Kuching
, broadcast 14 October 1945, NAA

4
      
Frederick Simpson script,
The Surrender of Kuching
, broadcast 14 October 1945, NAA

5
      
Frederick Simpson despatch, 11 September 1945, NAA

Chapter 18

1
      
John Thompson despatch, 12 September 1945, NAA

2
      
John Thompson,
Hubbub in Java
, Currawong Publishing, Sydney, 1946, p 9

3
      
Patricia Thompson,
Accidental Chords
, Penguin, Australia, 1988, p 194

4
      
John Thompson letter to BH Molesworth, 4 July 1945, NAA

5
      
‘Transcontinental',
I Hate and I Love
, John Thompson, The Hawthorn Press, 1964

6
      
‘Troops',
I Hate and I Love
, John Thompson, The Hawthorn Press, 1964

7
      
John Thompson despatch (edited), 3 September 1945, NAA

8
      
John Thompson despatch, 12 September 1945, NAA

9
      
John Thompson despatch, 12 September 1945, NAA

10
    
John Thompson despatch, 12 September 1945, NAA

11
    
John Thompson despatch, 8 September 1945, NAA

12
    
John Thompson despatch, September 1945, NAA

13
    
John Thompson despatch, 12 September 1945, AWM

14
    
John Thompson despatch, believed to be 24 September 1945, NAA

15
    
John Thompson despatch, September 1945, NAA

Chapter 19

1
      
Talbot Duckmanton despatch, 5 December 1945, AWM

2
      
NAA Fact Sheet 61, World War II war crimes, NAA

3
      
Japanese Savagery in Island War
, (believed to be Army PR based on Marien information), December 1942, NAA

4
      
Talbot Duckmanton, interview in ABC Tape Archives

5
      
Talbot Duckmanton,
Live actuality broadcast of VP Day celebrations in Sydney
, 15 August 1945, Audio, ABC Archives

6
      
Talbot Duckmanton letter to BH Molesworth, 14 September 1945, NAA

7
      
Talbot Duckmanton despatch, 14 September 1945, NAA

8
      
BH Molesworth cable to Talbot Duckmanton, 18 September 1945, NAA

9
      
Talbot Duckmanton letter to BH Molesworth, 27 September 1945, NAA

10
    
Talbot Duckmanton,
Interrogation of Suspected War Criminals
, 1945, Audio, ABC Archives

11
    
Talbot Duckmanton letter to BH Molesworth, 15 November 1945, NAA

12
    
Talbot Duckmanton script,
The Island of Ternate
, November 1945, NAA

13
    
Talbot Duckmanton,
Actuality Broadcast of The Installation of the Sultan of Ternate, at Sanana, Molucca Group
, broadcast 30 November 1945, NAA

14
    
Talbot Duckmanton script,
The POW Camp at Morotai
, 1945, AWM

15
    
Talbot Duckmanton script,
The POW Camp at Morotai
, 1945, NAA

16
    
Talbot Duckmanton despatch, 29 November 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

17
    
Talbot Duckmanton despatch, 5 December 1945, NAA (modified from original telegraphese)

Epilogue

1
      
Geoffrey Luck, former ABC London News Editor

2
      
Neville Petersen, former ABC foreign correspondent

3
      
ABC Talk by Laurence Gilliam, in the papers of John Thompson, 1954, SLNSW

4
      
Michael Davie,
The Observer
newspaper, 17 January 1954

5
      
ABC Talk by Laurence Gilliam, in the papers of John Thompson, 1954, SLNSW

6
      
Alan Moorehead,
The Observer
newspaper, 17 January 1954

7
      
Henry Stokes ABC broadcast, 26 February 1942, quoted in Burnie Advocate, 27 February 1942, TROVE

8
      
Henry Stokes quoted in the
Northern Star
, Lismore, 27 February 1945, TROVE

9
      
Frank Dixon,
Inside the ABC
, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1975, p 85

10
    
Henry Stokes quoted in the
Advocate
, Burnie, 27 February 1942, TROVE

11
    
Peter Hemery war diaries, 17 February 1944, AWM

12
    
Peter Hemery war diaries, 17 February 1944, AWM

13
    
Dudley Leggett letter to S Deamer, 20 November 1943, NAA

14
    
John Hinde,
ABC Oral History
, 29 June 1977, ABC Archives

15
    
John Hinde,
ABC Oral History
, 29 June 1977, ABC Archives

16
    
John Hinde,
ABC Oral History
, 29 June 1977, ABC Archives

17
    
John Hinde,
ABC Oral History
, 29 June 1977, ABC Archives

18
    
Raymond Paull, Preface to
Retreat from Kokoda
, William Heinemann Australia, 1958

19
    
Raymond Paull, Preface to
Retreat from Kokoda
, William Heinemann Australia, 1958

20
    
Tony Hill notes of interview with Vivienne Benton, 23 July 2015

21
    
Raymond Paull, Preface to
Retreat from Kokoda
, William Heinemann Australia, 1958

22
    
Ken Slessor obituary for John Elliott, ABC broadcast 8 July 1945, NAA

23
    
Jim Donald obituary for John Elliott, ABC broadcast 8 July 1945, NAA

24
    
John Elliott news despatch, 6th November 1944, NAA

25
    
John Hinde,
ABC Oral History
, 29 June 1977, ABC Archives

26
    
Original American spelling – ‘luster' (lustre)

27
    
Richard Legg private memoir,
Estranged Father, Strange Mother
, 2010 p 35

28
    
Fred Simpson letter to BH Molesworth during the Korean War, undated, NAA

29
    
Telex from ASIO Director General, 16 January 1975, courtesy of MacFarlane family

30
    
John Thompson letter to BH Molesworth, 22 November 1945, NAA

31
    
Patricia Thompson,
Accidental Chords
, Penguin, Australia, 1988, p 163

32
    
John Thompson interview, Hazel de Berg collection, NLA, in Self Portraits, David Foster, NLA, Canberra, 1991

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AAP 18

Abau 268

actuality recordings 7, 22, 24, 26, 77, 107

actuality reporters 24, 107

Admiralty Islands 223–4

Advisory War Council 136, 137

After Dinner Show 161

air raids

      
recording sounds of 78–81, 109, 114, 227

airmail 9, 20, 31

Aitape 204, 244–6, 263, 265–8, 270, 272

Alas 127

Alberto Italia 48

Alexandria 35, 58, 60, 63–4, 65, 88

Ambon 109

American troops 112, 119, 223

      
Pacific war 141, 158, 160, 161, 163–8, 171, 172, 173, 175, 178, 185, 186–8, 204, 217, 223, 230–2, 233–6, 244–5, 247–8, 266

      
Philippines 247–52, 255–62, 332

And Our Troops Were Forced to Withdraw
147

Angel, Don 266, 270, 271

Any Questions
341

Arafura Sea 128

Arawe 204, 205, 217

army public relations
see
military

Athens 54, 58

Athens Radio 53

atomic bombs 289

Atsugi airfield 301–2

Austin, Harold 47

Australia

      
news coverage 90–1

      
wartime 92–3, 104, 106, 109–10, 173

Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) 13, 346–7

      
Christmas 1953 broadcast 325

      
field units 25–6, 27–8, 44, 62–3, 88, 89, 94, 108, 118, 124, 162, 176, 201, 211, 247, 312, 326

      
independent news service 322, 334

      
London Bureau 18–20, 322

      
mobile recording units 22–4

      
news service 6, 15–18, 20, 91

      
Singapore bureau 322

      
talks 6, 8, 13, 14, 17, 20, 23–4, 41, 84, 90, 91, 111, 176, 198, 201, 206, 211, 218, 246, 247, 281, 299, 305

      
Talks Department 8, 98, 249, 323

Australian Imperial Force (AIF) 25, 88, 125, 292

      
2/1st Battalion 287

      
2/5th Battalion 184

      
2/6th Battalion 184

      
2/11th Battalion 267

      
2/22rd Battalion 309

      
2/33rd Battalion 187

      
2/40th Battalion 126

      
2/48th Battalion 72, 212, 218–19, 276–7

      
6th Division 34, 40, 52, 71, 266

      
7th Division 72, 186, 191, 192, 196, 224, 285

      
8th Division 98, 341

      
9th Division 72, 186, 192, 195, 196, 203, 212, 220, 221, 224, 280, 281, 302

      
16th Brigade 35, 155

      
21st Brigade 65

      
25th Battalion 192

      
25th Brigade 151, 153

      
39th Battalion 162

      
Maroubra Force 143, 144, 146

      
New Guinea Force 142, 147–8

      
Sparrow Force 126, 127, 131

Australian Light Horse 6

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) 344

Austria, annexation of 17, 28

Awasi, Captain 320

Bagnall, Frank 101, 223–4

Balikpapan 12, 276, 282–3, 285–8, 337, 338

Ball, William Macmahon ‘Mac' 51

Bamban River 257

Bandung 96

Bangkok 339

Banka Island 297

Banka Straits 102

Barce 49

Bardia 5, 34, 35–41, 50, 51

Barry, Peter
see
Hemery, Peter

Barstow, Lieutenant General 98, 100

Bataan 281

Batavia 96, 98, 101, 102–3, 339, 346

Bathurst Island 126

Beam Wireless service 20, 261

Bearup, TW 25, 91, 95, 111, 139, 158

Beda Fomm 45, 49, 51

Beersheba 6

Beirut 66, 69

Beit Jirja 30, 31

Benghazi 34, 47, 48–51, 65, 85

Bennett, Major General Gordon 94, 98–9, 100, 341

Beri Beri 294

Betano 126

Birdum 108

Bismarck Archipelago 236

Bismarck Sea 222

Blackwater Fever 293

Blamey, General 31, 38, 61, 83, 111, 172, 173, 174, 202, 266, 277, 301, 319

      
Wilmot, conflict with 147–51, 323

Blitz 19

Boisi 179, 181, 182, 183, 184

bombers
see also
military aircraft

      
Allied 42, 119, 123, 124, 126, 152, 172, 184, 186, 187, 205, 210, 234, 235, 243, 283, 306, 324, 329

      
German 58, 72, 79

      
Italian 37

      
Japanese 119, 132, 179, 182, 185, 188, 192, 205, 250, 284, 290, 307

Borneo 11, 12, 94, 109, 263, 276–88

      
Japanese surrender 302–3, 342

Bottomley, Cliff 101, 171

Bougainville 217, 237–8, 263–5

Boyle, RJ 7, 10, 27, 32, 33, 47, 85, 88

Brigade Hill 152

Brisbane 92, 110, 111, 112, 116, 141, 172, 173, 204, 233

British Broadcasting Commission (BBC) 10, 14, 20, 35, 52–3, 227

      
Christmas 1953 broadcast 325

      
Mobile Recording Branch 22

      
Radio Newsreel program 25

      
war correspondents 24–5, 62–3, 75, 90–1, 185, 188, 289, 324

British Official Wireless Service 20, 90

broadcasters

      
journalists, distinguished 6, 43–4, 107, 121–2, 135, 305

Broome 106

Brown, Dickson 126, 127

Brown, Flying Officer 296, 298

Brunei Bay 279, 285

Buka Island 239

Bukit Timah 99

Bullwinkel, Sister Vivian 298

Bumi River 195, 197

Buna 140, 158–65, 167, 168, 169, 171, 188, 205

Burma 289

      
Thai-Burma Railway 292–4

Busu 189

by-lines 139

cables 9, 20, 24, 62, 96, 102–3, 141, 206

Cairo 34, 35, 44, 50, 51, 61–2, 65, 67, 82, 85, 96

Calvin, Ensign Joe 176

Canberra 92

Cape Gloucester 203, 206, 217

Carty, Bill 182

Castle Hill 112

casualties

      
Middle East 40, 66, 68, 83, 88

      
Pacific war 97, 106, 140, 152, 153, 155, 169, 171, 183, 184, 187, 188, 192, 195, 220, 224, 236, 244–6, 261, 264, 276, 282, 283, 286, 309, 314

      
prisoners of war 292–4

Cecil, Lawrence 7, 10, 27, 29–30, 62, 74, 312, 326–7

      
background 31–2

      
Bardia 35–41

      
character 30, 32, 63

      
Greece, in 52–5, 57, 326

      
HMAS
Perth
63–5

      
Middle East, in 33, 34–41, 43, 46–8, 50, 59–60, 63–6, 69–71, 74, 77, 82–4, 85, 88, 111, 326

      
Tobruk 43

Celebes 109

censorship

      
Middle East 8, 35, 44, 53–4, 61, 66, 67, 77–8, 82

      
Pacific war 105, 114, 117, 120, 136–7, 138, 147–8, 202, 233, 242, 256, 265–71, 281

Ceylon 285, 289, 310

Chamberlain, Neville 14, 29

Changi Prison 291–2

Chiang Kai-Shek 285

China 283, 284–5, 289

Chungking (now Chongqing) 284, 285, 328

Clark Field 257

Cleary, WJ 213

Collingwood Bay 329

Colombo Plan 348

Coral Sea 112

      
Battle of 113

Corregidor 281

Cosgrave, Father 259

Courtenay, Bill 223

Crete 59, 61, 65, 75, 96, 99, 327

cricket, broadcasting 28, 331

Crosby, Bing 216

Cross, Lieutenant Chuck 238–40

Curtin, John 92, 173, 174

Cyrenaica 48–9, 71

Cyrene 49

Czechoslovakia 17

D-Day 324

Damour 69–70

Darwin 92, 116, 119, 123, 125, 126, 132, 254

      
bombing 11, 104–10, 118, 122, 133

Davie, Michael 324

Dawes, Alan 118–19

de la Salle College massacre 258–9

Dead Sea 86

Deamer, Syd 177, 201, 202, 246

Delta 34, 35, 62, 65

dengue fever 8, 226

Deniki 156

Denning, Warren 174, 202, 206, 208, 233, 328

Department of Information 29, 51, 96, 101, 266, 270, 286, 312, 319

deputy assistant directors of public relations (DADPR) 137, 193, 202

Derna 34, 45–8, 50, 65, 81

Derrick, Sergeant Tom ‘Diver' 212, 277

Diggers 27, 37–8, 67–8, 71, 121, 168, 198, 215

      
behaviour 33–4, 74

      
courage of 9, 75, 145, 155, 264, 273

      
New Guinea, in 144–6, 154–5, 221–2, 265

      
Tobruk, at 71, 73–7, 80

Dili 123, 125, 130

Diller, Colonel 148, 201, 262, 282

Dimbleby, Richard 24–5

disease 8

Dixon, Frank 103, 118, 133, 134, 138, 139, 142, 168, 174, 204, 246, 249, 327

      
federal News editor 15, 53, 90–3, 116, 134–5, 201, 202, 232, 233, 299

Dobodura 167, 168, 184, 197

Dodds, Private Charles 315

Donald, Jim 337–8

Drakeford Cole, Patricia
see
Thompson, Patricia

Driniumor River 244, 246

Duckmanton, Christine 319

Duckmanton, Craig 319

Duckmanton, Florence (nee Simmonds) 319

Duckmanton, Kim 319

Duckmanton, Susan 319

Duckmanton, Talbot 7, 12, 347–8

      
background 312–13

      
military service 312–13, 347

      
Moluccas 318–19

      
Morotai 311–19, 348

      
post-war 348

      
war crimes trials 311–21, 347

Dunckel, Brigadier 257

dysentery 8, 70, 131, 151, 156, 170, 293

Eastick, Brigadier 302, 303

Edward VIII, King 15

Edwards, Chris 345

Edwards, Len 7, 9, 12, 115, 219, 315, 337, 345

      
background 115–16

      
Borneo 286, 288, 302–3

      
character 162

      
Japanese surrender (Borneo) 302–3, 342

      
Papua and New Guinea 160, 162–5, 167, 168, 170–1, 175, 216–17, 227–9, 231, 242–3, 247, 274–5

      
post-war 345

      
recording equipment, designing 227–8, 242, 345

      
Townsville 141

      
Wewak, capturing 275

Edwards, Suzanne 345

Egypt 30, 34, 75, 84, 96

Egyptian State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) 35

Eichelberger, Lieutenant General 168

El Alamein 218, 219

El Kantara 30

Elle McFeast
335

Elliott, Helga (nee Johnson) 253, 337

Elliott, John 7, 12, 262, 337–39

      
background 253–4

      
Balikpapan 282–3, 285–8, 337, 338

      
Borneo 280–1, 282–3, 285–8

      
character 338

      
China 284–5

      
death 8, 12, 283, 284, 286–8, 337–8

      
Hollandia 249–50, 252–3, 255

      
military service 254, 338

      
Philippines 254, 255–62, 280, 281, 282–3

Emirau Island 236–7

Eora Creek 144, 153–5

Exchange Telegraph news service 18

Fenton, Major George 77, 82, 112, 149, 193–4, 202–3, 204, 211

Ferry, Captain Maurice 292–4

Fiji Broadcasting Commission 337

Finch, Peter 346

Finisterre Ranges 203, 213, 217, 219

Finschhafen 194–8, 199, 211, 213, 219–20, 307

Fire Down Below
235

First World War 32

      
reporting 6

Five Years of War
332

Fleet Street 51

‘The Flying Squad' 22

‘footsloggers' 221–2

foreign correspondents 2, 323

Formosa 283

Forty Thousand Horsemen
5

France 24

freelance correspondents 15–17, 90, 94

Gallwey, Leo 7, 10, 27, 32, 64, 71, 88, 326

      
HMAS
Perth
64

Gaza 31, 32–4, 47, 63, 65, 70, 77, 88

Gazelle Peninsula 270

General Headquarters (GHQ) 9, 93, 255, 275

      
Australia 104, 110, 113, 116–18, 141–2, 146–8, 160, 172, 174, 176, 202, 204, 226, 233

      
Middle East 96

Germany 15–16, 28, 79, 84

      
Austria, annexation of 17, 28

      
Greece, attacks on 55–7