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Date Time Robert honouring mates and uncles on ANZAC Day A Hervey Bay man who served in the Vietnam War will pay tribute to fallen military personnel – including his two uncles – on ANZAC Day. Robert Symonds commenced his defence force career half a century ago at the age of 22. Carinity Home Care client Robert Symons served in the New Zealand Air Force during the Vietnam War. He served in the New Zealand Air Force for 19 years and during that time was based at all the military bases in that country. At the end of the Vietnam War in the early-1970s he was stationed in Singapore for three ...

Red Eclipse: Halting the Communist Drive on Seoul The massive Chinese offensive in 1951 aimed to destroy the U.S. Eighth Army and drive it from the Korean Peninsula. Here's What You Need to Know: The blunting of the Chinese spring offensive amounted to the most decisive defeat the Communists had yet suffered in the war. By mid-April 1951, the war in Korea was nearly 10 months old. United Nations forces had suffered a reversal of fortunes in late 1950 with the entry of Communist China into the war, losing the South Korean capital of Seoul but later regaining it. Now the U.S. Eighth Army, a mu...

Red Eclipse: How Allied Forces Halted the Communist Drive on Seoul in 1951 The massive Chinese offensive in 1951 aimed to destroy the U.S. Eighth Army and drive it from the Korean Peninsula. Here's What You Need to Know: The blunting of the Chinese spring offensive amounted to the most decisive defeat the Communists had yet suffered in the war. By mid-April 1951, the war in Korea was nearly 10 months old. United Nations forces had suffered a reversal of fortunes in late 1950 with the entry of Communist China into the war, losing the South Korean capital of Seoul but later regaining it. Now t...

It’s time to send returning travellers away from cities It’s time to send returning travellers away from cities December 21, 2020 — 12.01am Save Normal text size Advertisement Many experts and most people think it’s time for returning travellers to be redirected to unpopulated areas for quarantine (‘‘City on high alert’’, December 19-20). Leakage from quarantine in Victoria cost many lives and billions of dollars. And there’s little doubt that the current outbreak in Sydney will ruin Christmas for far more people than those who want to return to Au...