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Korea armistice to be signed today
Title : Korea armistice to be signed today Korea armistice to be signed today
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Source : Advertiser, 27 July 1953, p. 1
Date of creation : 1953
Format : Newspaper
Contributor : State Library catalogue
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Article reporting on the imminent signing of a peace agreement to end the Korean War. It also discusses the arrangements for the release of prisoners of war once the armistice came into being.


Subjects
Coverage year : 1953
Period : 1946-1979
Further reading :

Cochrane, Peter. Australians at War, Sydney: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001

Evans, Ben. Out in the cold : Australia's involvement in the Korean War 1950-53, Canberra, A.C.T. : Australian War Memorial and Dept. of Veterans' Affairs, 2000

Odgers, George. Remembering Korea : Australians in the war of 1950-1953, Sydney : Lansdowne Publishing, 2000

O'Dowd, Ben. In valiant company, St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 2000

Smith, Neil C. Home by Christmas: the Australian Army in Korea 1950-56: being a record of the Australian Army's involvement in the Korean War and listing those who served in Korea 1950-56, Gardenvale, Vic.: Mostly Unsung, 1990

Internet links :

Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) See: History: Korea

Australians at War [Department of Veterans' Affairs]: See: The Great Search Stories: Korea

Australian War Memorial See: Australian Military History Overview: Korean War 1950-1953

BBC History - The Cold War - The Korean War overview

Australian Army History Unit [Department of Defence]: See: History & Battles: History Index: The War in Korea 1950-53

Nominal Roll of Australian Veterans of the Korean War [Department of Veterans' Affairs: includes Nominal Roll and History]

Sea Power Centre - Australia: See: History: Feature Articles: RAN in the Korean War

Victorians at War - Oral History project [Department of Veterans' Affairs and State Library of Victoria]: See: Overview: Korea


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