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UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) Blast Witness-Inala 1954

US to investigate 1943 blast Goodna schoolyard

UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) Blast Witness-Inala 1954

Joan Realia (nee Phillips/ Harrison) daughter of a US soldier

Dennis Hughes’ father – a private in the US Army,

Merv Bryant – a civilian employed by the US Army

Eugenie Blackney (nee Shand) survived the Japanese Camps in Java

Kelvin Lang- Armoury Driver for RAAF

Bill Bentson – studied at the US Officers School

Bryan “Tex” Grantham – US Army, 32nd infantry division-“The Red Arrows.” Brisbane 1942-45

Lona Grantham (nee Price) – WWII and Oxley

Ted Dunlop Remembering Oxley/Corinda during WWII

WWII stories from Redbank by Val Jackson

Patricia Metcalfe and Wim van Wely met at Camp Columbia

A Goodna child’s view of WWII – by Claire Wilson (nee Evans)

Joan Lord (nee Murphy) – Wacol during WWII

Dick Holland – joined the Australian Imperial Force

Norm Bremner’s war memories

Mary Wilson (nee Hogan) – Americans in Darra

Les and Gwen Perry (nee Brown) – WWII memories from around Darra

Desley Lansbury (nee Scott) – WWII stories from Darra

Bob Eason – a teenager during WWII

Pino Zerlotti farm boy – exempt from military services

Noel Sparrow – remembering US soldiers

Milly Yarnold (nee Reed) – Memories From The War Years

Alido Vincenzi – delivered ice to Camp Columbia

Keith Brough – war recollections from around Archerfield

Fred Clark – memories of WWII in Richlands

Beryl Bull (nee Clark) – WWII stories from Richlands

Carmen Formigoni (née Cantoni) – Italian migrants during WWII

World War II Stories from Brisbane’s South West

Alex Borgeaud – WWII stories from Richlands

Personal stories from the Women Army Corps – trained at Camp Columbia

Mark Gehrke’s WWII artefacts from Brisbane

Engelandvaarder Chris van Oosterzee – trained at Camp Columbia

The Mysterious Disappearance of Sharron Phillips near Camp Wacol (1986)

Dutch migrant family Douwes settles from Wacol in Inala, Brisbane – 1961

General Douglas MacArthur – General SWAPA commander in Brisbane 1942-1944

American Captain Gunther Bonnin liaison with Dutch intelligence at Camp Columbia during WWII

Lieutenant General Simon Spoor in charge of Netherlands Forces Intelligence Service at Camp Columbia

Mauritz Kokkelink – Award ceremony at Camp Columbia

Personal recollections Camp Columbia – Jean van Schilfgaarde

Coosje Ayal’s resilience and legacy in wartime Western New Guinea, rescued to Brisbane

Hut C1 Camp Columbia used by migrant family Volz in 1950

WWII – Tension between Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur

Sultan of the Spice Island of Ternate at Camp Columbia

Pauleen Badke – a young woman’s wartime experience at Camp Columbia’s Officer Candidate School

Historic interviews with former Wacol Residents

Australia’s military commander Thomas Blainey moved his headquarters to Brisbane in 1942

Captain Boot the unpopular commander of the 18 NEI RAAF Squadron

Lieutenant Sutherland, Chief of Staff to General Douglas MacArthur in Brisbane

Conrad Helfrich Commander in chief of Dutch Forces in the East

Edmund Nyst – Dutch soldier at Camp Columbia

Patricia Metcalfe – Typist, Wim van Wely – Dutch Motor Pool

Joan McConachy – secretary at the Dutch Army at Camp Columbia

The story Willy de Eerens and the dog tag found at Camp Columbia