With the 75th Anniversary of the end of the War in the Pacific only a fortnight away, the Department of Veterans Affairs has upgraded the ANZAC360 app to include the Fall of Singapore.
This will allow the next generation of Australians to learn about the beginning of a precarious time in our history during the Second World War by using virtual reality technology, through drone footage and a blending of modern day imagery with pictures and footage of the action.
The Fall of Singapore and capture of so many Australians was a devastating event and made a Japanese invasion of the Australian mainland a real possibility.
This is the third stage of the ANZAC360 app which brings to life the battlefields of the Western Front during the First World War, and important stories of the Burma-Thailand Railway and the Sandakan death marches in the Second World War.
This is a wonderful resource and learning tool for future generations. Well done and well worth a look.
The app is available for free download from the App Store – search ‘ANZAC 360’.

The Queensland RSL (Returned Services League) will be commemorating VP Day with installations up in lights on Brisbane City Hall from the 10th of August to the 15th of August. The installation will run every 15 minutes from 6pm until 10pm each evening
I’ll be adding Rosemary saplings to the Little Community Library for the occasion.

Ah crap. Why would you bring attention to another great day in out history?? Right now, some group is using this blog as excuse to tear down some WW2 statutes.
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Nah, over here it is just statues of Captain Cook that are being defaced. You know, the fella who brought anglo-saxons to the continent. There was a monument of Winston Churchill in Canberra, our Capitol, but I think that has been removed for safety reasons and been replaced by a Yowie.
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I’ll bite…what is a Yowie?
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I think you call them Big Foot or Yeti.
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Yeti? Was he not the great great great grandfather of Yoda?
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Yoda is from one of those movies from the 80s and 90s. You know I don’t watch those.
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Yea. I was trying to make a funny. Yoda is a major Star Wars character.
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