The Cinderella Service: Australians in Coastal Command 1939–45.

Discover the story of 5,000 Australian airmen who undertook grueling maritime patrols with the Royal Air Force Coastal Command. Battling the German Submarines which threatened to blockade Britain, the men made an essential; contribution to the Allied effort during the war’s longest continuous campaign, the Battle of the Atlantic.

Speakers:

Air Vice-Marshal Chris Spence AO (Retd), Chairman of Shrine Trustees

Mr Robin Scott, Minister for Veterans

Wing Commander Colin Smith, Commanding Officer No. 10 Squadron

View The Cinderella Service in our South Gallery daily from 10am with last entry at 4.30pm until July 2020.

For two days in April 1951, the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fought a heroic rearguard action and helped to stop a massive Chinese force at the gates of Seoul. Dr Adrian Threlfall explores Australia’s largest post-Second World War battle.

Adrian's two books are:

Jungle Warriors

Reg Saunders: An Indigenous War Hero

Adrian's third book is due for release in 2020.

The Shrine's special exhibition, The Korean War 1950–53, is on display daily in our Galleries from 10am with last entry at 4.30pm.

Recorded Friday 5 April. 

MC:

Mr Dean M Lee, CEO Shrine of Remembrance

Speakers:

The Honourable Robin Scott, Minister for Veterans

Mr Tom Parkinson, President of the Korean War Veterans Association of Australia

Dr Richard Trembath, academic and author of A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea 1950–53

Mr Kim Sunghyo, Consul-General of the Republic of South Korea

The Korean War 1950–53 will be on display at the Shrine until March 2020 and can be viewed daily from 10am, last entry at 4.30pm.

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