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Aces of Australia: Geoffrey Hughes
The Aerodrome offers information on World War I ace and Australian aviator Geoffrey Forrest Hughes (1895-1951). The Aerodrome highlights Hughes' rank, service, number of victories, place and date of birth, date of death, and other information on Hughes. He was one of the highest scoring aces in 62 Squadron.
Geoffrey Hughes
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Fighter Aces of the Great War
A look at the transformation of aerial combat during World War I and the pilots of every country who were celebrated for shooting down enemy aircraft. By the time of the outbreak of the First World War, aviation was only eleven years old. The daddy of battlefield warfare until that point in time had been the cavalry, a position it maintained even as war was declared on the Western Front. Aircraft were not initially seen as an offensive weapon and were instead used by both sides as observation platforms or to take aerial photographs. Even when they were eventually used in an offensive capacity, they did not have machine guns attached to them; if the crew wanted to open fire then they had to u...
Wisden on the Great War
A lasting memorial to those from the cricketing world who fought and those who fell.
What is the Problem?
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A Matter of Principle
In A Matter of Principle, Jana Wendt, one of Australia's most experienced interviewers, connects with remarkable men and women from the worlds of politics, entertainment, society, art, cinema, sport and architecture. Former US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, feminist Camille Paglia, screen siren Charlotte Rampling, 'starchitect' Frank Gehry, former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer, Muslim rebel Wafa Sultan, war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and, in Australia, entertainer Rove McManus, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty, Olympic swimming champion Shane Gould, writer David Malouf, art critic Robert Hughes and photographer Bill Henson talk to Wendt about where their values lie. Thought-provoking and engagingly revealing, Wendt shows that a life well led is A Matter of Principle.
Sea, Land and Air
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