Before leaving the war memorial, they stopped to greet hundreds of people who gathered under clear skies flying Australian flags. The temperature was forecast to reach a mild high of 24 degrees ...

The last person to have died under such circumstances was H. W. Madden, who was captured during the Korean War in the 1950s, according to the Australian War Memorial.

The Australian War Memorial's curator of military history, Emily Hyles, says the humanitarian mission was triggered by a request from then-US president Gerald Ford. "Operation Babylift was the ...

Albanese vows ‘strongest action possible’ if Australian POW killed fighting for Ukraine against Russia ...