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Sound history. Researching WWII radio and listening in Aotearoa New Zealand. Blogs at worldwarvoices.wordpress.com. Toitū te Tiriti.
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Come and listen to WWII NZ nurses with me this Anzac Day ashburtonmuseum.co.nz/event/with-t...

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Due to this idiotic statement, by a person who has proven his inability to distinguish truth from online propaganda, I just donated to Wikipedia. Please do the same.

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New Zealand journalist Private David Finlayson visited Pearl Harbour shortly before the Japanese attack of Dec. 7, 1941. On his return to NZ he recorded what he had seen and heard in Hawai’i. He was killed in action in Italy two years later. www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-c...

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Back in 2014 I first heard this archived recording of 1942 BBC broadcast to NZ. It is only a 4 minute fragment but the stories it can tell about WW2, empire and most of all, families, is powerful. www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-c...

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Working with heritage collections is a privilege. We sometimes are lucky enough to see archives and databases connecting families across time. www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial...

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