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Two families help uncover a WWII flight suit's remarkable past
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (743+ words) Surviving World War II enemy fire and a fatal crash in rural Whanganui are just part of the remarkable history behind a Royal New Zealand Air Force flight suit. The sheepskin flying jacket and matching trousers had different owners and…...
From Kaitaia to Burnham: Lyric Peters’ journey through Army logistics
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (572+ words) The Far North’s Corporal Lyric Peters has put miles and interesting experiences under her belt as a logistics specialist with the NZ Army. She has tackled specialist trades, been promoted to section commander and was named a junior leader. Now…...
'It wasn't a great landing': WWII air gunner's one-eyed story of survival
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (851+ words) Living for more than 100 years means seeing things most humans will never experience again. For Havelock North’s David Fox, now 103, one of those experiences was helping fly a Lancaster bomber with a one-eyed pilot and a hole in the cockpit....
‘Love you, Mum’ – imagining an Anzac soldier’s text messages: Glenn Dwight
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (479+ words) Glenn Dwight imagines a text conversation between an Anzac soldier and his mum if they’d had mobile phones. Son: Yeah. Just got here. Long trip. Mum: Told you. Did you sleep? Son: Bit here and there. Not much. Mum: Where…...
Actor Mark Wright shares personal story behind poignant return to Gallipoli
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (893+ words) Waihī-based actor and writer Mark Wright plays nine characters in his one-man show Voices from Gallipoli, which he is performing at Auckland's Q Theatre in the lead-up to Anzac Day. Actor Mark Wright shares the personal story behind his moving…...
Japan opposes Auckland statue to honour wartime sex slavery victims
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (340+ words) The Japanese Embassy is opposing the erection of a statue in the Auckland suburb of Takapuna that would honour the 200,000 women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army during World War II. The statue - depicting a young girl - would be…...
Dutch and Māori family united as late opa honoured with World War II bravery medal
4+ mon, 23+ hour ago (882+ words) Defence Attaché Colonel Gerbe Verhaaf (left) presents the Mobilisation War Cross to Joseph and Aaron Gielen. Dutch and Māori lineage intertwined when a Rotorua family received a belated World War II medal on behalf of their patriarch. A letter from…...
'You mustn’t worry for me': Tragic tale behind boy in soldiers’ crypt
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (892+ words) Thomas Coughlan: Christopher Luxon grapples with ghost of Covid response as new disaster looms May 21, 1945: a German boy pens a high-spirited letter to his family from a civilian internment camp in liberated France. “You will be astonished to learn I…...
Dad's war medals returned to son after being stolen from Napier home
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (592+ words) Glenn Furniss of Napier had his father's WWII and Korean War medals stolen during a burglary in 2024; some have now been returned with the help of police and voluntary organisation Medals Reunited New Zealand (MRNZ). Stolen war medals dropped by…...
Book of the day: On Liberalism - In Defense of Freedom by Cass Sunstein
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1341+ words) NZ Herald Liberals know their ship is going down. During the past 10 years there have been hundreds of books about this historic moment, supplemented by essays, papers, reports, studies, all denouncing the populist turn, explaining why liberalism is the one…...