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Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial

Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial explores the artefacts that make up the museum of the Australian War Memorial. Join journalist Louise Maher and take a closer look at the obscure, popular, strange and wonderful items in the collection.

Louise peels back the past, highlights the history and uncovers the stories that the public don’t always get to hear.

Jun 14, 2020

Towards the end of World War Two, Japan built and mobilised thousands of killer boats to defend its homeland and occupied territories from possible Allied invasion. In Episode 18 of Collected, Louise Maher discovers how one of these Shinyo suicide launches was captured by Australian troops in Borneo and used...