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History - WW2

Book Review: For Those in Peril

Nicholson, Ian · Mar 5, 1996 ·

Title: For Those in Peril Author: Vic Cassells An evocative title. On the title page, the author says “A comprehensive listing of the ships and men of the Royal Australian ...

Book Review: Contact!

Duchesne, Tim · Mar 5, 1996 ·

Title: “CONTACT! HMAS RUSHCUTTER and Australia’s Submarine Hunters 1939 -1946.” The disproportionate contribution of Australia to Allied victory in World War II, bearing in mind her limited resources, is common knowledge. ...

Letters: Tribal Elders Approve Retention of “Warramunga”

Letter Writer · Mar 3, 1996 ·

The following correspondence is self-explanatory. It is believed that the decision for the visit of the “Elders” of The Warramunga Veterans Association to Tennant Creek was made after the South ...

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Obituary: Rear Admiral Bryn Mussared (1917-1995)

A.N. Other · Mar 2, 1996 ·

Rear Admiral Bryn Mussared was born in 1917 in Semaphore SA, and entered the Navy in 1932. On passing out from the Naval College, he was awarded ‘maximum time’ and the ...

Obituary: Commander Arthur Stanley Storey (1909 – 1995)

Cleary, Brian, Commodore, RAN (Rtd) · Mar 2, 1996 ·

Arthur Stanley Storey was 13 years old when selected to enter the Royal Australian Naval College in 1923 as one of 12 Cadet Midshipmen. His peers were quick to note ...

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Report:HMAS Sydney II-Possible and probable causes of loss

A.N. Other · Mar 1, 1996 ·

The Department of Marine Archaeology, Western Australia has produced a Report No. 104, by W.J. Olsen, investigating the possible and probable causes of the loss of H.M.A.S. “SYDNEY”. It is ...

Commander Wojceich Franki – Polish Navy (Rtd)

William F. Cook, MVO, Captain, RAN (Rtd) · Dec 31, 1995 ·

On 1 March, just a few weeks before his 92nd birthday, I had a long and most interesting discussion with Commander Franki, late of the Polish Navy. Although crippled with ...

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Clandestine Radios – Burma Railway 1942-1945

Cox, Leonard J. · Sep 1, 1995 ·

Edited by Harry Knight (“Bogie” Knight) This article is a tribute to the courage and fortitude of two very brave men, Sgt. Edward Cawthron of the Fortress Signals and Chief ...

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Spectrum of Command -RANVR, RANR(S) and RAN

Thomson, Max · Sep 1, 1995 ·

*The first became Australia’s Minister for Defence. * The second piloted 8463 ships of the world through our major ports to set a record that probably never will be eclipsed. ...

Australia Remembers 1945-1995

Date, John C., RANVR (Rtd) · Jun 1, 1995 ·

Australia Remembers 1945-1995. Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the end of World War II In World War II (1939-1945) units of the Royal Australian Navy traversed the globe in service as part ...

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Who “Invented” Radar?

Luscombe, L.J. · Jun 1, 1995 ·

Over the years, on the few occasions that the subject of my prewar (1939-45) involvement with the development of radar has cropped up in conversation, I have invariably been asked ...

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Trincamalee Harbour Incident – 1944

Cox, Leonard J. · Jun 1, 1995 ·

The British Fleet that lay at anchor in the harbour at Trincamalee consisted of five battleships, two squadrons of cruisers, four aircraft carriers and two flotillas of destroyers, all peacefully ...

HMAS Canberra – Solomon Islands Memorial

Nordall, Keith · Mar 6, 1995 ·

Prior to 1988, the HMAS Canberra – HMAS Shrop­shire Association had been occupied in establish­ing memorials to both their ships at Naval establish­ments in each State of Australia. In March ...

Book Review: Krait the little fishing boat that went to war and The Heroes of Rimau

William F. Cook, MVO, Captain, RAN (Rtd) · Mar 6, 1995 ·

Title: “Krait” – The Little Fishing Boat that Went to War” Title: “The Heroes of Rimau” Author: Lynette Ramsay with research from Major Tom Hall The histories of “KRAIT” and her Jaywick operation, ...

Letters: HMAS Canberra Memorial followup

Letter Writer · Mar 6, 1995 ·

As a survivor of HMAS Canberra in 1942 and as one who assisted in establishing a memorial to that ship. I feel it my duty to reply to Russ Prior’s ...

German Raiders in the Indian Ocean – 1941

Prior, Russ · Mar 6, 1995 ·

January, 1941 was the month when problems caused by German raiders in the Indian Ocean increased. The fa­mous armed merchant cruisers ATLANTIS and PINGUIN were now joined by the pocket ...

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FAIRMILES – Overview Of Vessels

Price, David, OAM · Dec 11, 1994 ·

The “B” Type Fairmile was a wooden hulled motor launch of approximately 90 tons displacement. It had a length of 112′, a beam of 17’10” and a draught of 3’8″ forward ...

HMAS Nizam – Typhoon 1945

William F. Cook, MVO, Captain, RAN (Rtd) · Dec 11, 1994 ·

HMS CALLIOPE, the third ship of that name in the Royal Navy, was a third class cruiser of 2,770 tons, launched in 1884 at Portsmouth. She became famous as the ...

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Book Review: The Shame of Savo Island

Book reviewer · Sep 11, 1994 ·

The Battle of Savo Island in which HMAS CANBERRA was lost has been the subject of many books, analyses and articles, but in his powerful and enthralling work the author ...

Book Review: Lost ships of Guadalcanal

Book reviewer · Sep 11, 1994 ·

THE LOST SHIPS OF GUADALCANAL By Robert D. Ballard, Published by Warner/Madison Press This is another book by one of the world’s foremost oceanographers and undersea explorers. Robert Ballard is already ...

Captain Frank Edmund Getting, RAN – 1899-1942

Smith, Peter · Jun 11, 1994 ·

Frank Edmund Getting was born on 30 July, 1899, the son of Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Getting of Quarantine Street, Manly, New South Wales. In 1913 Frank applied for entry ...

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The Cost of World War II

Encyclopaedia Britannica, · Jun 11, 1994 ·

“Fifty-seven nations, Allied and Axis, were belligerents in World War II . . . The major portion of the cost was borne by the United States, the British Commonwealth, the ...

Book Review: The Battle of the Wine Dark Sea

Book reviewer · Jun 11, 1994 ·

No other sea presents so many mysteries to the naval historian as the Aegean. Battles have been lost and won in this island-studded waterway since antiquity but none were more ...

Occasional Paper 187: HMAS Australia – the 1940 Dakar Debacle

Gregory, Mackenzie J. · Dec 12, 1993 ·

In September 1940 I was eighteen and had already served as a Midshipman in H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA for over a year. We had been attached to the Home Fleet based in ...

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Book Review: HMAS Canberra – Iron Bottom Sound

A.N. Other · Dec 12, 1993 ·

HMAS Canberra lies at the bottom of Ironbottom Sound, her eight-inch guns still reaching vainly for the Imperial Japanese enemy which surprised and overwhelmed her with a hurricane of shell ...

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