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I attended the Dawn Service in Martin Place in Sydney yesterday morning. This was my first in Sydney. Last year I was part of an impromptu group of 3 who held a Dawn Service at the former USAAF / RAAF airbase at Iron Range on Cape York Peninsula. This year's ANZAC Day has left me humbled and...

I hope you'll be posting the photos. I'm looking forward to hearing about how the visit went.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8b3vr42iUY&feature=channel_page

Hi everyone, just thought I'd run an update on the status of the DVD... It's ready (finally). We've crunched it, colour corrected it and finally spat it out on one of those silvery plastic coaster-looking things. I have cut a trailer for it which will be available on YouTube as soon as...

RIP Paddy. Paddy was part of Sparrow Force, an Australian Independent Coy which fought a tough guerrilla war against Japanese occupying forces in Portuguese Timor. The Aussie commandos were helped mightily by the local Timorese, so it's not a surprise that Paddy Kenneally was an ardent...

I'm giving the Rolls a rest for a few days while I work out this old-fangled method... Prosaso soap (out of an old US canteen cup I found in a WWII site "up north" no less) Old Kent pure badger brush John Watts straight razor Hone stone out of my Rolls Razor Wide leather belt for a strop...

That would be great if you'd let em know Mojito, we've got just over an hour of this stuff and when the DVD is ready, we'd be happy to provide each of the Z-Specials with complimentary copies. It's the least we could do. H.Johnson, that weapon is an AUSTEN (Aus STEN), a home-grown variant...

Guys, the first video preview of the film is up on youtube. Cheers

"They've got us surrounded again - the poor bastards!" Abrams - Battle of the Bulge 1944

Most Aussies and some students of the "Secret War" have heard of the Z-Special Unit "Jaywick" mission into Singapore Habour, but less well-known is "Operation Copper" where 8 Z-Specials were tasked with recceing a small island off northern New Guinea called "Muschu Island". This was a prelude to...

OK, here they are. The film is the standard 4:3 aspect ratio and was 16mm. We have been having a devil of a time with the kine machine (converts film footage to video). It's old and has to go to U-Matic before we can digitise it. Then to make matters worse, because it is a government surplus...

Here's a screen grab of SGT Frank Doyle in action during an unarmed combat instruction class. This is straight out of Fairbairn's book "Get Tough!". I'll post some more screen grabs shortly.

G'day DutchIndo, I'll have to get back to you on that one with more detail. My area of expertise is Australian WWII sites. Off the top of my head, Java was part of the Dutch East Indies and during the Japanese invasion of early 1942, it was defended by US, British, Australian and NEI...

Wow. We have just had a major coup. In the Z-Special Unit film there is a long segment showing the various unarmed combat techniques used by the unit. Keep in mind this is Fairbairn's unarmed combat system in action and in glorious colour. I will post a couple of frame grabs out of the...

You mean Douglas Aiken? Try douglas @ b25.net That's the last email address I have for him.