Voices from the Air (45 page)

Telegram despatch from Haydon Lennard in Singapore, reporting the landing of Allied troops following the Japanese surrender. 5 September 1945. (NAA)

Fred Simpson, ABC war correspondent 1943–1945 (ABC Archives)

Fred Simpson recording a report in kunai grass, New Guinea. Bill MacFarlane is operating the recorder and a young local, Marea, is assisting Fred with the microphone. The photo was taken very soon after Fred arrived in Port Moresby. December 1943. (AWM)

After the capture of Wewak by Australian troops, Fred Simpson (with pencil in hand) interviews some of the soldiers. Simpson had trekked with the troops for several weeks as they pushed towards Wewak. 9 June 1945. (AWM)

John Hinde, ABC war correspondent 1942–1944 (NAA/ABC Archives)

Frank Legg, ABC war correspondent 1944–1945 (ABC Archives)

John Elliott, ABC war correspondent 1944–1945 (NAA/ABC Archives)

Army chaplain Alan Laing reads the burial service for John Elliott, Department of Information correspondent Bill Smith and Private William Aitken. Elliott and Smith were killed by gunfire from an Australian Bren gunner who, at a distance, mistook them for Japanese soldiers. The grave lay on a gentle hill above the beach at Balikpapan, Borneo. 4 July 1945. (NAA/ABC Archives)

John Elliott's war correspondent identity card (AWM)