For Australian servicemen World War II meant deployment to far off locations at a time when few ordinary Australians had the means or opportunity to travel overseas. Those serviceman who came home returned with experiences of distant and 'exotic' places and cultures; something that from this current vantage point of a globalized world we often fail to see as ground breaking.
Click on the link to sail out of Sydney with Kevin into a new world - as he throws a message in a bottle overboard to his wife: http://www.archive.org/details/KevinsWwiiVoyagesydneyToMiddleEastPart1
Click on the link to sail out of Sydney with Kevin into a new world - as he throws a message in a bottle overboard to his wife: http://www.archive.org/details/KevinsWwiiVoyagesydneyToMiddleEastPart1