• H45: Military History - A Battlefield Perspective

    Review the sweep of history as experienced on the battlefield.

    Gallipoli
  • Learn from Past Experience

    Use historic documents and media to focus on a single contact, battle, campaign or war.

    Slide 15
  • WARFARE WITHOUT LIMITS

    Address ancient to modern times as well as conventional, nuclear, asymmetric and even spiritual warfare.

    Slide 16

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H45 ARCHIVES for 2017-2018

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This webpage provides resource archives for the 2017 and 2018 sessions of the U3A Course Military History - A Battlefield Perspective. These are freely provided for your reference and revision, but please respect the copyright laws regarding their further use, keeping in mind the time and energy that the authors have expended in putting them together. Materials developed and/or used by student presenters will only be posted here with their express permission.

RESOURCES - TERM 4 2018

Military History

SESSION 4-4, 1 NOVEMBER 2018

Presented by Howard Leemon
Session 4 Notes: Battle of Chickamauga
Movie: Animated Map of Chickamauga
Military History

SESSION 4-5, 8 NOVEMBER 2018

Session 5 Notes: Reno's Valley Fight
Military History

SESSION 4-7, 22 NOVEMBER 2018

Presented by Geoffrey Wherrett
Session 7 Notes: Churchill
and the Fall of Singapore

Military History

SESSION 4-8, 29 NOVEMBER 2018

Session 8 Notes: War of 1812
Southern Theatre

Military History

SESSION 4-10, 13 DECEMBER 2018

Presented by Ian Fraser
(Background by Ray Sarlin)
Session 10 Notes: Task Force Baum;
Patton's Hammelburg Raid

RESOURCES - TERM 3 2018

Military History

SESSION 3-4, 9 AUGUST 2018

Presented by Bill Callister
Session 4 Notes: Military History, Basics I
Military History

SESSION 3-6, 23 AUGUST 2018

Presented by Howard Leemon
Session 6 Notes: Battle of Stones River
Military History

SESSION 3-7, 30 AUGUST 2018

Presented by Bill Callister
Session 7 Notes: Battle of Sekigahara no Tatakai
Military History

SESSION 3-8, 6 SEPTEMBER 2018

Session 8 Notes
Military History

SESSION 3-9, 13 SEPTEMBER 2018

Session 9 Notes
Military History

SESSION 3-10, 20 SEPTEMBER 2018

Session 10 Notes

RESOURCES - TERM 2 2018

Military History - A Battlefield Perspective

SESSION 2-6, 24 May 2018

Presenter: Howard Leemon
Session 6 Notes: Cleaning up afterwards: Australian war graves in WWII - A personal story
Includes Supplementary Notes by Ray Sarlin
Military History - A Battlefield Perspective

SESSION 2-7, 31 May 2018

Presenter: Ian Fraser
Session 7 Notes: The Battle of Sedan 1940
Includes Supplementary Notes by Ray Sarlin
Video: How did Germany defeat France in 1940? Part 1.

Military History - A Battlefield Perspective

SESSION 2-10, 21 June 2018

Presenter: Joe Cazey
Session 10 Notes: Battle of Chipyong-ni, Korea, 1951
Includes Supplementary Notes by Ray Sarlin

RESOURCES - TERM 4 2017

The First Battle of Kokoda

SESSION 4-1, 5 OCTOBER 2017

Session 1 Notes
The Battles of the Beachheads

SESSION 4-2, 12 OCTOBER 2017

Session 2 Notes
The Amazing Bible

SESSION 4-3, 19 OCTOBER 2017

Session 3 Notes
Boxer Rebellion

SESSION 4-5, 2 NOVEMBER 2017

Session 5 Notes
Battle of Britain

SESSION 4-6, 9 NOVEMBER 2017

Presenter: Ian Murray
Session 6 Notes
Handout 4-2. Churchill's Battle of Britain Speech 18 June 1940 (full text) (N.B. This is a great history lesson itself.)

ABOUT THE TUTOR

RAY SARLIN

Ray twice commanded two infantry companies in combat in Vietnam, and later commanded an Infantry Battalion Task Force in combat as well. In addition he commanded tank (Armor) companies in Europe and Military Police companies. He held senior staff positions in operations, logistics and emergency actions. In the latter role, he was involved in the Yom Kippur War.

A Distinguished Military Graduate of the University of Washington, Ray was commissioned as a Regular Army Officer in the Armor branch of the U.S. Army. He graduated from the Armor Officers Course, Infantry Officers Advanced Course, Nuclear Weapons Employment Course, Special Warfare School, Military Police Officers Advanced Course, US Army Command and General Staff College and numerous other military courses.

Field briefing in Vietnam

Briefing LTG Corcoran, CG, IFFV, in the field in Vietnam on ongoing company operations against North Vietnamese regulars.