Darwin veterans mark 66th anniversary
Links to news coverage of the 2008 commemoration ceremonies in various locations:
- Brief news story (Radio Australia, 19 February) describing arrangements for the Darwin ceremony (the same story appears on the ABC Darwin web site)
- Air raid mates meet by chance after 66 years: Bertie Wansley and Ron Ronson are reunited in Darwin (Northern Territory News, 18 February)
- Veterans’ Affairs Minister Alan Griffin announces that the first Wednesday in September will become an official commemoration day (Sydney Morning Herald, 18 February)
- The Leader of the Opposition in the Northern Territory says a proposed new military museum should be located at East Point (ABC News, 18 February)
- Brief news article about a commemoration at East Point Military Museum in Darwin (ABC News (17 February)
- Woman in homage to brave ancestor: article about Leading Seaman Physical Trainer Corinne Williams, who will lay a wreath in Darwin in memory of her great-grandfather, Petty Officer Frank Moore, who was fatally wounded in the first raid (Northern Territory News, 17 February)
- Darwin bombing to be remembered in Bankstown NSW: brief article including phone number for further details (St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, 14 February)