Category: Australia

• The War They Waged: Viet Cong Women at War

  

  Image: A Viet Cong guerrilla stands guard in the Mekong Delta. “You could find women like her almost everywhere during the war,” said the photographer. “She was only 24 years old but had been widowed twice. Both her husbands were soldiers. I saw her as the embodiment of the ideal guerrilla woman, who’d made great sacrifices…

  September 3, 2025

  1960s, 1970s, America, American Army, American History, Australia, Cambodia, event & history, Female Viet Cong Guerillas, Females, Historical Photos, history, History Daily, History Daily With Francis Chappell Black, Laos, North Vietnam, soldiers, South Vietnam, Tet Offensive, Vietnam War

  1960s, 1970s, America, American Army, American History, Cambodia, event & history, Female Viet Cong Guerillas, Females, Historical Photos, history, History Daily, History Daily With Francis Chappell Black, Laos, North Vietnam, soldiers, South Vietnam, Tet Offensive, Viet Cong, Vietnam War

• The Largest POW Escape of World War II: The Cowra Breakout. August 5, 1944.

  

  Image: Cowra POW Camp, 1 July 1944. Japanese POWs practising baseball near their quarters several weeks before the Cowra Breakout. The photograph was taken for the Allied Far Eastern Liaison Office, with the intention of using it in propaganda leaflets to be dropped over Japanese-held islands and Japan itself. More than 1,000 Japanese men were…

  August 5, 2024

  1940s, Australia, Australian Soldiers, Cowra POW Camp, Death, Escape Attempt, History Daily, Japanese POWs, World War II

  1940s, Australia, Australian Soldiers, Cowra POW Camp, Death, Escape Attempts, History Daily, Japanese POWs, World War II