by admin | Apr 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
With the inauguration of a new president in Washington at the start of this year there have been fears expressed about where the Trump administration’s determination to ‘make America great again’ might next see U.S. military forces committed around the globe. In...
by admin | Mar 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
When writing my 2015 book Olof’s Suitcase: Lasseter’s Reef mystery solved, I was initially quite prepared to accept the conventional wisdom that my Swedish grandfather, Olof Johanson, was incidental to the drama surrounding the 1930 Central Australian Gold Exploration...
by admin | Feb 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
While researching the book Olof’s Suitcase: Lasseter’s Reef mystery solved, I could hardly avoid being drawn into examining the personal history of Lewis Harold Bell Lasseter (real name Lewis Hubert Lasseter), the man who claimed to have once discovered a rich gold...
by admin | Feb 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
There are a number of photographic images that show the moment when, on 7 May 1942, the mixed Australian-American squadron under command of Rear Admiral Jack Crace, RN, came under Japanese air attack in waters off the eastern tip of Papua, during the first day of the...
by admin | Feb 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
While on a holiday cruise around Cape Horn last month, I happened to find myself at Stanley in the Falkland Islands on Australia Day – booked on an excursion to take in the sites of conflict from Britain’s 1982 war with Argentina over possession of these forlorn...
