Voices from the Air (40 page)

      
Poland, invasion of 19

      
surrender 324

      
Tobruk 75

      
war crimes trials 324

      
Yugoslavia, attacks on 55

Gilliam, Laurence 325

Giovanni Berta 46

Glyfada 54

Going My Way
216–17

Gona 140, 158, 159, 161–2, 169, 171, 205

Gorari 158

Gore, Libby 335

Greece 6, 10, 52–61, 75, 90, 95, 96, 326, 327, 345

Guadalcanal 237

guerrilla war 124, 125–32

Gurr, Tom 213

Haifa 31, 70

Hall, Gwenda
see
Lennard, Gwenda

Halmaheras 247, 318

Hamilton, Ian 92

Hansa Bay 184, 240, 241

Hayworth, Rita 197

Heath's Plantation 191

Helwan 34

Hemery, Lyndie 329

Hemery, Norma (nee Turnbull) 107, 124, 177, 329–30

Hemery, Peter 7, 10, 124, 174, 209, 328–30

      
background 107

      
character 120–1, 329

      
Darwin 104–10, 116, 118–20

      
death 330

      
Finschhafen 195, 196, 197, 199

      
International News Service (INS) 185, 188, 200–1, 328

      
Lae 188–90, 192

      
Lennard, relationship with 176–7, 199

      
military service 329

      
Papua and New Guinea 172–3, 175–6, 182, 185–6, 188–90, 192, 195–8, 328–29

      
photography 328

      
post-war 330

Hemery, Peter (son) 177, 330

Herring, Lieutenant General 168

Hill 701 274

Hinde, Barbara (nee Jefferis) 233, 250, 335

Hinde, John 7, 11, 135, 207, 247, 332, 333–5, 339

      
background 232–3

      
death 335

      
GHQ, at 116–17, 233, 249

      
Hollandia 232, 233–6, 248–50, 252

      
illness 334

      
injuries 236, 249, 252

      
Papua and New Guinea 230, 232, 233–8

      
Philippines 251–2, 254, 255, 333–4

      
post-war 334–5

Hinde, Rosaline 250

Hindenburg
disaster 22

Hiroshima 289, 304

hitch-hiking 47

Hitler, Adolf 14, 15–16, 48, 314

      
invasion of Poland 19

      
Rally for Greater Germany (Nuremburg) 28

HMAS
Bowen
317

HMAS
Broome
162

HMAS
Castlemaine
126

HMAS
Kapunda
302

HMAS
Manoora
276, 336

HMAS
Perth
21, 63–5, 88–9

HMS
Glory
307

HMS
Sussex
290

The Holding of Tobruk
75

Holland, Gordon 266

Hollandia (now Jayapura) 230, 232, 233–6, 244, 247, 249, 250, 255

Hong Kong 17

Honner, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph 161–2

Hubbub in Java
346

Hurley, Frank 26

Humboldt Bay 230, 232

Huon Gulf 190

Huon Peninsula 179, 186, 194, 202, 211, 217, 220, 222

Ikingi Maryut 34, 35, 36, 48, 50, 65

Imita Ridge 151

In a Dug-out in Tobruk
78

Indigenous people 336

Indonesia, post-war 12, 310, 346, 347

Indrapoera
27, 30

International News Service (INS) 185, 188, 200–1, 328

interviews 7–9, 24, 26, 62, 65, 68, 70, 83, 111, 119–21, 142, 159, 160, 162, 168, 170, 199, 225, 275, 288, 289, 301, 315–17, 330, 342, 344, 346

      
POWs 291–4, 315–17, 342

Intramuros 261

Ioribaiwa 152

Irwin, Edith
see
Wilmot, Edith

Ishaq, Colonel SM 309

Italian airforce 37

Italian Army 34

      
Bardia 39–40

      
Benghazi 48–9

      
Derna 45–6

      
Tobruk 42–3

Iwo Jima 332

Jackson, Hugo 15, 18–20, 55, 90, 322

      
‘Scrutator' 18

Jacobsen's Plantation 191–2

Japan 10, 226

      
Allied occupation 11, 303, 342

      
atrocities 138, 152, 220, 258–9, 291–4, 296–9, 304, 309, 311–12, 314–21, 344

      
China 285

      
Darwin, bombing of 104–10

      
Nazi Fifth Column activities 16–17

      
Pacific war 88, 94, 97–103, 109, 113, 115, 123–4, 128, 129, 133, 151, 244–5, 266, 304, 308

      
Papua and New Guinea 140, 147, 151–2, 155, 158, 163, 171, 173, 179–80, 183–4, 195–6, 212, 222, 230, 233–6, 241, 263, 273

      
Pearl Harbor, attack on 86, 92

      
Philippines 257, 258–60, 283

      
pre-war manoeuvring 17

      
Singapore, capture of 97, 98–102

      
Sino-Japanese war 16

      
surrender 11, 12, 282, 288, 289, 299, 300–3, 304, 308, 332, 342

      
Timor 125–32

      
Townsville, bombing of 114–15

      
war crimes trials 12, 311–18, 347, 348

Japanese Savagery in Island War
312

Java 94, 96, 98, 103, 310, 327, 339, 346

Java Sea 295

      
Battle of 88

Jefferis, Barbara
see
Hinde, Barbara

Jerusalem 33, 67, 86

Jewish Telegraphic Agency 18

Jews, persecution of 15–16

      
Kristallnacht pogrom 17

Jinks, Ed 107–9, 121

Johnson, Helga
see
Elliott, Helga

Johore 98

Jordan Valley 86

journalists 6–8, 15, 134–5

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

Journey Across Bougainville
237–40

‘Jumbo' 25–6, 31, 70, 116

jungle warfare 138, 161, 178, 184, 212, 230, 244–5, 252, 264–5

Kaiapit 194

Kairiru Island 228

Kakagog 196, 197

Katherine 106

Keane, Kim 266, 268

Kelliher, Private Dick 191

Kifissia 54

Kilner's warehouse fire 23

Kiriwina Island 174–6

Knox, Errol 137

Koepang 123, 128

Kokoda 11, 113, 115, 140–9, 151–8, 159, 160, 161, 168, 171, 312, 336

      
advance 151–8

      
withdrawal 141–9, 336–7

Korean War 322, 340, 343

Korovulavula, Lieutenant Siti 238–40

Kuching 288, 302, 303, 317, 342

Kunming 285

Labuan Island 276, 279, 280

Lae 173, 179, 186, 190, 196–7, 203, 307

      
land assault 190–4

      
water assault 188–90

Lahat 296

Laidlaw, Captain Geoff 130

Laing, Alan 287

Lansbury, George 14

Lawson, Henry 71, 73

Lebanon 66, 69

Legg, Eve 341

Legg, Frank 7, 12, 71–2, 265, 317, 340–2

      
Asiatic-Pacific Service Ribbon 341

      
background 217–18

      
Borneo 276–82

      
Brunei Bay 279–81, 285

      
character 218, 227, 341

      
death 335, 342

      
illness 222

      
Japanese surrender (Tokyo Bay) 300–2

      
military service 11, 218–19, 221, 341

      
New Britain 269–71

      
New Guinea 209, 219–25, 247

      
post-war 335, 341–2

      
‘The Prattler' 218

      
Tarakan 276–9

      
War Correspondent
224

Legg, Richard 342

Leggett, Dawn (nee Lightfoot) 110, 170, 331

Leggett, Dudley 7, 11, 23, 83, 111–12, 115–16, 209, 211, 312, 330–2

      
background 109

      
Darwin 108, 109

      
death 332

      
illness 163, 170–1, 331–2

      
military service 84, 110, 200

      
Papua and New Guinea 151–8, 159–68, 170–1, 175, 186–7, 196, 198–200, 201, 330–1

      
post-war 331–2

      
Townsville 113–14, 141

Leggett, Dudley (son) 331

Leggett, Lorelei 331

Leggett, Robin 331

Lennard, Gwenda (nee Hall) 340

Lennard, Haydon 7, 10–11, 23, 113, 117–18, 141, 148, 171, 173–4, 209, 232, 299, 339–40

      
Aitape 244–5, 266

      
army PR, and 201–2

      
Australian nurses on Sumatra 294–9

      
background 134–5

      
Bougainville 263–5

      
Burma 289, 290

      
character 135, 299, 339

      
China 289

      
Hemery, relationship with 176–7, 199

      
illness 169–70, 204

      
Korean War 340

      
Papua and New Guinea 133–4, 137–9, 160–1, 162–3, 168–9, 176–7, 193, 198, 204, 247

      
plane crash 206–8, 244

      
POWs, interviewing 291–4

      
post-war 339–40

      
SEAC (Ceylon) 285, 289

      
Singapore 290–9, 339

      
Townsville 139

Lennard, Jo 339

Lennard, John 339

Lennard, Nora 341

Lethbridge, General 213

Leyte 250, 252, 255, 257, 338

Leyte Gulf 249–50, 334

Libya 5, 34, 40, 44, 48, 51, 72, 84, 85

Lightfoot, Dawn
see
Leggett, Dawn

Lloyd, Lord 14

Loebok (Lubuk) Linggau 294, 296–9

London

      
ABC Bureau 18–20, 322

      
blackout 19

Los Banos camp 261

Los Negros 223

Luzon 257

MacArthur, General Douglas 11, 116–17, 148, 172, 173, 201, 202, 223, 224, 276, 285, 301, 341

      
Japanese surrender 300

      
Philippines 11, 217, 230, 247, 250, 253, 255, 256, 283

Macassar 315

McCall, Bob 226, 279

MacDonald, Ramsay 14

MacFarlane, Anne 344

MacFarlane, Bill 7, 9, 10, 12, 27, 116, 318, 344–5

      
background 36

      
Bardia 36, 38

      
Borneo 276–8, 279, 344

      
character 219

      
Derna 45–8

      
Greece, in 52, 54–5, 57

      
Japanese surrender (Tokyo Bay) 300–2

      
Middle East, in 30, 35, 36, 38, 44–9, 59, 63, 65, 73, 77, 78–81, 84–5, 88

      
Pacific war 89, 112, 114, 115, 141, 143

      
Papua and New Guinea 141, 143, 177, 188, 199, 210, 219, 224

      
post-war 344–5

      
skill as technician 80, 326, 344–5

      
Tarakan 276–8

      
Tobruk 73, 77, 78–83

      
Townsville 112–13, 114

      
war crimes trials 316

McGibbon, S.J. 61

MacNamee, Moira
see
Marien, Moira

Madang 222, 241

Malacca Straits 291

malaria 8, 131, 138–9, 163, 169–71, 177, 204, 237, 271, 272, 293, 331, 335

Malaya 6, 10, 17, 60, 94–5, 97, 103, 301, 328

Malayan Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) 94, 96, 101

Malayan Command 98–100, 103

Manila 17, 90, 248, 257, 258–61, 280, 281, 282–4, 286, 301, 317

      
massacre 258–9

Manus Island 223

Marawasa 194

Marien, Bill 7, 10, 116, 122, 207, 332–3

      
army PR, and 201–2

      
background 122–3

      
Darwin 123–4, 126, 203

      
death 333

      
injured leg 127, 131–2

      
Lae 189, 190–3

      
newspaper correspondent 332

      
Papua and New Guinea 177–85, 186–8, 189, 190–4, 198, 201, 201–4, 219, 230, 332