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Letters: RAN College

Letter Writer · Mar 30, 2001 ·

Dear Sir What a charming and informative article that was on the RAN College (Naval Historical Review, Vol 21, No. 4) [Ed: Dec 2000]. Thank you. Given the rate of ...

The Role of the RAN in the Liberation of the Philippines

Royle, Guy, Admiral · Mar 30, 2001 ·

An address by RADM Guy Griffiths, AO, DSO, DSC, RAN Retd at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne (Oct 2000) Together with the widely dispersed set-backs in late 1941 – early ...

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Missing were the usherettes and the popcorn

Thomson, Max · Mar 30, 2001 ·

As movies, so many of the films were easily forgettable; yet the locations and especially the settings and circumstances under which they were screened, were gems of wartime naval service ...

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Christmas Day Off Korea

Francis, Richard · Mar 30, 2001 ·

I recall this amusing little story as told by my former captain of a large destroyer, from his earlier days during the Korean War (1951-53). My CO was a gunnery ...

Portuguese Carronades – 16th Century Explorers to Australia?

A.N. Other · Mar 30, 2001 ·

An extract from “A Short History of Garden Island” Volume 2 by Chaplain V.W.Thompson RAN, followed by some comments by a Mr H.V.Howe Garden Island possesses a number of pieces of ordnance, ...

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