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Lewis, Tom, AOM, Lieutenant RAN

Occasional Paper 131: Destroyer doomed from the start – the rewritten story of USS Peary’s final combat action in Darwin 1942

Lewis, Tom, AOM, Lieutenant RAN · Mar 2, 2022 ·

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Finding of Akagi and Kaga focuses attention on Japan’s formidable aircraft carriers
and the Darwin raid

Lewis, Tom, AOM, Lieutenant RAN · May 27, 2020 ·

By Tom Lewis Dr. Tom Lewis OAM is a retired naval officer, and the author of 14 books. Some of this text was drawn from Carrier Attack, published in 2013 ...

Type of Boy Required . . .

Lewis, Tom, AOM, Lieutenant RAN · Dec 10, 2010 ·

The Royal Australian Naval College in its early years was certainly definitive about what type of entrant was thought most suitable for officer training. A look at the 1918 edition ...

The Senior Service – Why is the Navy so often called?

Lewis, Tom, AOM, Lieutenant RAN · Sep 8, 2003 ·

A SURE WAY OF ENSURING RAGE from Army colleagues is for a Navy member to start up a discussion as to the order of protocol for a march, or a ...

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Naval Action at Darwin – 19 February 1942

Lewis, Tom, AOM, Lieutenant RAN · Jun 9, 2002 ·

Nine ships were lost on the 19th February 1942, seven within Darwin Harbour, and two in waters north of the harbour. Many others were damaged, and in the main, this ...

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Royal Australian Naval College

Lewis, Tom, AOM, Lieutenant RAN · Dec 30, 2000 ·

The establishment of the Royal Australian Naval College’s buildings was begun early this century after the House of Representatives decided a naval college should be built on federal land. Jervis ...

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