World War Bloody Timor gives a revealing insight into the extraordinary life of the everyday digger and service in a conflict that was far from ordinary.
My name is Peter Olsquo;Hanlon, but everyone in the military, from the lowest digger to the highest officer, has always called me asquo;Irishusquo;. You won't see me, or the service men and women like me, featured in the latest blockbuster, but our service lives include drama, laughs and accounts of deep turmoil that are worth telling. I was a member of the Australian Army for 11 years and during my deployment as part of the INTERFET force, serviced three very impacting tours of East Timor.
What was it like, as a 19 year to land at the Dilli Airport in Australia