Experiences Frome German Captivity of Private Green
Private P. T. Green of Bobin, son of Mr. Tom Green, was welcomed home on Friday night. Enlisted in October 1939 at Manilla, Green sailed for the Middle East in January 1940 and has been a German prisoner since April 1941. His wife and two sons live in North Manilla. four brothers serve in the AIF. He joined the 2/2 Battalion in 1939 and soon served in the Middle East before capture.
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Bobin
P. T. Green
Tom Green
Green
Manilla
Middle East
Ron
Dennis
North Manilla
AIF
2/2
Country Party Postwar Policy Emphasizes Realism and Growth
The Country Party outlines postwar aims focusing on population growth, new industries, and primary production support. It rejects isolationist or socialist extremes, backs closer settlement, improved electricity and irrigation, rail reform, and housing for rural communities while opposing prolonged bureaucracy.
Survival and Suffering of an Australian POW in World War II
Private Green recalls torture, hunger, and endurance after being captured in Tobruk and surviving a Greek hospital,SALONIKA prison camp, and Stalag 8B. He describes daily life, Red Cross aid, propaganda, and brutal chain restraints imposed on prisoners after Dieppe, with references to German guards and fellow Allied captives.
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Greece
Piraeus
Salonika
International Red Cross
Berlin
Red Cross
Germany
Stalingrad
el Alamein
Dieppe
New Zealand
Green
Heroes of the War Readiness and Prisoner Exchange
The account recalls crowded compound camps with 9 000 to 10 000 men per acre, annual Olympic games, and harsh winters. It follows Green a stretcher bearer in the Medical Corps who was treated as protected by Germans, learned of release last August, and was exchanged in October. He traveled via Marseilles to Barcelona, endured shipboard freedom and hospitality in Egypt, then sailed home to Australia after a 14 day hold for a ship fit for the voyage. Paddy, who led at sea, suffered appendicitis and recovered by Colombo.
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Green
France
Marseilles
Barcelona
Egypt
Australia
Paddy
Colombo
New Guinea Heroes. Natives lauded for bravery under fire
War reporting from eastern New Guinea describes native carriers known as Puzzy Wuzzies showing courage in patrols with 70 natives at one Ramu Valley post. Eight killed ambush by Japanese. one survivor crawled two miles with crippled legs after five days without food. Police boys also risked fire aiding a wounded warrant officer. three days crossing rivers and forests to safety.
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New Guinea
Ramu
New Luinest
Germany shifts to land invasion battle plan says observers
Military observers say Germany's defence posture has moved from defending coastal areas to an inland invasion battle concept. They do not expect to defeat any initial landing attempt and warn of new operational realities.
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Germany
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