A brave and determined man

FLIGHT Lieutenant William Ellis Newton's aggressive temperament brought him to prominence in Australian Rules football and first-class cricket, earned him the Victoria Cross and also cost him his life.

Allies make mark

Sixty years ago Australian and US aircraft ambushed a Japanese troop convoy en route to Lae in New Guinea, inflicting an emphatic defeat and gaining control of the surrounding seas for the first time, as WGCDR Geoff Willans and Richard Hogan write.

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