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Other identified members of No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron RAAF

No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron RAAF brought together personnel from different national, cultural and professional backgrounds. Dutch, Indonesian, Indo-European and Australian personnel served as pilots, observers, bombardiers, navigators, wireless operators, air gunners, engineers and ground staff. The DACC has separate articles about several prominent members of the squadron. This Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsOctober 16, 2022 ago

Aviation and Shipping

Gerard Johan Lugt: letters of a No. 18 Squadron pilot

From Amsterdam and England to wartime service in Australia Gerard Johan Lugt was a young Dutch engineer and pilot whose wartime journey took him from the Netherlands to England, the Netherlands East Indies, Australia and the United States before he joined No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron RAAF. His extensive Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsOctober 16, 2022 ago

Military and Political History

Sparrow Force – Allied guerrilla force in Timor WWII

Sparrow Force was a detachment based on the 2/40th Australian Infantry Battalion and other Dutch, British, US and Australian 8th Division units during World War II. The force was formed to defend the island of Timor from invasion by the Empire of Japan. It formed the main part of the Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsOctober 16, 2022 ago

Military and Political History

Major Jan Willem Zijlstra – Sparrow Force Timor WWII

Military record Born in Malang, Java, on 27 December 1910. Died at “Ladang” House, near Berry, New South Wales, Australia, on October 6, 1965. Army number 102417002 Second lieutenant KNIL Army (31-07-1932), First Lieutenant (31-07-1935), Captain. (27-05-1943), Major (17-12-1949). Well-known decorations: · Ereteken Belangrijke/Bijzondere Krijgsbedrijven/-verrichtingen BK,E.1,OHK.3,OV.1,XV,KLO· Bronze Cross K.B. Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsOctober 16, 2022 ago

Military and Political History

The Battle of Timor – 1942-1943

The Battle of Timor – the Dutch and Australians kept fighting after the surrender of Netherlands East Indies. The bombing of Darwin did bring WWII directly onto the shores of Australia. However, what is less well known is that the reason for the Japanese attack on Darwin and Broome was Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsOctober 16, 2022 ago

Aviation and Shipping

Mutiny on the Tasmanian ferry Abel Tasman -1985

The following is an abstract – with permission – from the Mitchell Bruce’s website Ferries of Australia Abel Tasman (IMO 7362108) sailed on the Bass Strait between 1985 to 1993. She started life as the Nils Holgersson, built in 1975. She commenced her regular route, linking Travemünde (Germany) to Trelleborg Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsOctober 15, 2022 ago

Dutch – Australian History

Dutch mapping of the Indo-Pacific 1550 – 1750 (with emphasis on the mapping of Australia)

Presentation by Roland Spuij President Dutch Australian Cultural CentreFor the Abel Tasman Museum, Lutjegast on 10 October 2022 See also: Historic Maps of the explorers Maps from the Exhibition Maps of the Pacific. Abel Tasman Abel Tasman Museum Lutjegast, Netherlands

By DACC, 4 yearsOctober 14, 2022 ago

Dutch artefacts

Dutch and Australian Relics from Camp Columbia Brisbane

Camp Columbia in the suburb of Wacol in Brisbane was a United States Army military camp. It was built in 1942 to accommodate American troops. The Sixth US Army Headquarters was formed and stationed here. It also hosted two hospitals and an Officer Candidate School till 1945. This was the Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsOctober 12, 2022 ago

News and Updates

Crashed in the hostile nature of Netherlands New Guinea – Dutch, American, Australian, Indonesian and Papuan collaboration

Crashed in the hostile nature of Netherlands New Guinea- book by Bas KreugerTranslated by Thijs de Veen. Reproduced interview with thanks to Traces of War In the summer of 1944 not only Normandy was the stage of war against a ruthless occupier. In the East too the allied forces were Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsOctober 11, 2022 ago

Aviation and Shipping

SS Van Heemskerk: From Convoy ZK8 to its loss at Milne Bay

The KPM steamship Van Heemskerk served as a military transport throughout the critical first year of the Allied campaign in New Guinea. After escaping the Japanese conquest of the Netherlands East Indies, she carried Australian and American troops, military equipment, fuel and ammunition from Australian ports to the fighting front. Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsOctober 9, 2022 ago