... remote concept and difficult to understand especially when most Australian children (and their parents) have no direct experience of war. Our educators also recognise its exclusive nature (ie based in a white, Anglo male) may be challenging or even alienating to students of different backgrounds. So let's look at how we attempt to gain our objectives, while always conscious of the obstacles ... depicts an incident the Battle of Pozieres in 1916 where the Australians alone lost 6,500 men. The diorama shows a group of men from 48th Battalion who are valiantly clinging onto a patch of land...

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... hopeless anyway. In one scene on the beach landing, wounded are lined along the ground and medics rush to save the life of one of the wounded, but while they patch him up a bullet hits him in the head. The methods that led to soldiers" deaths along with the agonies they suffered in World War II were extremely realistic in "Saving ... . Parachutists were landed just before the ground invasion so that they could secure vital positions behind the beach landings. The dark sky was filled with clouds of commandos, and their white parachutes were fixed in the sights of enemy guns. Ryan himself ...

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