This report gives an overview of the relationship between the Commonwealth of Australia and the United States including the close alliance under the ANZUS treaty. The report includes information about the structure of the Australian government, political and domestic issues, economics, defense policies and security ties, counterterrorism, environmentalism, affairs in Asia and the Pacific Southwest, and an analysis of other specific events.

Newspaper clipping describing how a Denton-area Boy Scout troop will participate in the 1987 XVI World Jamboree in Australia, with some background about the troop and the history of the event. There is a column on the back of the clipping with a series of historical and trivia facts.

Letter from Mrs. John Clayton to T. L. James discussing information needed to procure displaced families for farm hire through the Estonian Relief Committee.

Weekly newsletter for employees of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. containing religious articles, work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.

Weekly newsletter for employees of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. containing religious articles, work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.

Weekly newsletter for employees of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. containing religious articles, work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.

Weekly newsletter for employees of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. containing religious articles, work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.

Weekly newsletter for employees of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. containing religious articles, work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.

Weekly newsletter for employees of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. containing religious articles, work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.

Weekly newsletter for employees of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. containing religious articles, work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.

Weekly newsletter for employees of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. containing religious articles, work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with A J Dunn. Dunn joined the Navy in 1940 and received basic training in San Diego. Upon completion, he was assigned to the USS Oglala (CM-4) at Pearl Harbor. On the morning of 7 December 1941, he was returning from liberty when the attack began. Unable to find his ship, he jumped aboard the USS Mugford (DD-389) just as it was getting underway. After seven days of patrols, he returned to the harbor and was transferred to the USS New Orleans (CA-32). While on convoy duty to Brisbane, the ship received a warm welcome from Australian citizens. But one evening, the ship was nearly subject to friendly fire when a cruiser from New Zealand mistook the New Orleans for a Japanese ship. Dunn was transferred to the USS Indiana (BB-58) with Task Force 58, bombarding islands in the Gilberts and Marshalls. As a gunner’s mate, his duties included testing small arms ammunition in a surveillance oven to see whether it had expired. He was transferred to the USS Botetourt (APA-136), operating out of the Philippines until the end of the war. He sailed past the USS Missouri (BB-63) …