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Naval Intelligence

Book Review: Calls to the Deep

Book reviewer · Mar 5, 2008 ·

Calls to the Deep – The Story of Naval Communications Station Harold E Holt, Exmouth, Western Australia By Brian Humphreys. Available from Australian Aviation/Phantom Media, PO Box 1777, Fyshwick, ACT, ...

Is this the Future of Maritime Patrol?

Periodical, RAAF News · Dec 4, 2007 ·

The following article is an extract from a report in the November 2006 edition of RAAF News. The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) has successfully completed a trial aimed ...

U-859 – From Germany to Penang

Wright, Ken · Mar 4, 2007 ·

By May 1943, Germany had lost the U-boat war in the Atlantic. U-boat losses had reached an intolerable level with the loss of 38 U-boats for May alone. The Allies ...

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The Battle of the Atlantic – Contribution by Code Breakers

Keegan, John · Mar 4, 2007 ·

Editor’s Note: In 2006, the Review published an article tracing the history of HMAS Rushcutter during the period 1939-45, when that establishment was the primary A/S training school throughout the ...

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Book Review: A Man of Intelligence -The Life of Eric Nave

Book reviewer · Jun 3, 2006 ·

A Man of Intelligence – The Life of Captain Eric Nave, Australian Codebreaker Extraordinary. By Dr Ian Pfennigwerth, Captain, RAN (Rtd). Publisher Rosenberg Publishing P/L, Dural, 2006. Reviewed by LCDR ...

Hitler’s Indian Ocean Grey Wolves

Wright, Ken · Mar 30, 2005 ·

BY MAY 1943, Germany had lost the Battle of the Atlantic. U-Boat losses had reached an intolerable level for the Germans with the loss of 38 U-Boats for that month ...

Book Review: Alone on Guadalcanal – A Coastwatcher’s Story

Duchesne, Tim · Jun 20, 2000 ·

ALONE ON GUADALCANAL – A Coastwatcher’s Story, By Martin Clemens CBE OBE AM MC High on anyone’s list of largely unsung heroes of the Pacific War must come the British and ...

Belconnen Naval Wireless Station and HMAS Harman 1939-1996

Reed, R.A. (Bill) · Jun 3, 1997 ·

This Brief History was especially written for, and published in the form of, a souvenir booklet for attendees of the RAN Radio Mechanics Third National Reunion held in Canberra in ...

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Obituary: Ian Hunter McDonald RAN (1915-1996)

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 1997 ·

On 25 November 1996, 55 years to the day of the sinking of HMS Barham, in which he was serving and when 862 of his shipmates lost their lives, Captain ...

Coastwatching In The Pacific – Solomon Islands

Gregory, Mackenzie J. · Apr 12, 1993 ·

The Australian Coast Watching Service owed its genesis to a suggestion by the then District Naval Officer, Western Australia (Captain C.J. Clare R.A.N.) in 1919. He submitted, that selected civilians, on ...

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The German Ultra

Winter, Barbara · Mar 11, 1991 ·

The book The Ultra Secret by F.W. Winterbotham, has made many people think that the cryptanalysis unit at Bletchley Park was reading German ciphers constantly with the greatest of ease. ...

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Letters – Censorship

Letter Writer · Jun 19, 1989 ·

May I comment on Max Thomson’s admirable article, The War of Words. Being an onlooker (with a keen eye at times) during the two Great Wars (both wars to end ...

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Strange Orders – in Strange Places

Thomson, Max · Jun 11, 1987 ·

Warships received some strange orders in some strange places during World War II. Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes: Milne Bay was a pretty forlorn place in the early days of ...

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Ruby Boye – Coastwatcher Heroine

Zammitt, Alan · Sep 9, 1984 ·

MRS. RUBY BOYE-JONES lived with her husband, Mr. Skov Boye, at Vanikoro, a small tropical island in the Santa Cruz group of the then British Solomon Islands Protectorate at the ...

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A Century of Japanese Intelligence – Part IV

Swan, W.M., Lietutenant Commander, RAN · Jun 30, 1975 ·

In this fourth part of the story of Japanese Intelligence, Cdr. Swan relates the story of an American who refused to sell his country. Al Blake became a double agent ...

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A Century of Japanese Intelligence – Part III

Swan, W.M., Lietutenant Commander, RAN · Mar 31, 1975 ·

In the third instalment of his article on Japanese Intelligence Lt.Cdr. Swan describes in detail the vast network of spies planted in California, Mexico and Hawaii by the Japanese. An ...

A Century of Japanese Intelligence – Part II

Swan, W.M., Lietutenant Commander, RAN · Dec 31, 1974 ·

In this second instalment on Japanese intelligence, Lieutenant-Commander Swan covers the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and the consequent penetration of China, Manchuria, Burma, India, Annam, the Philippines and Mongolia by ...

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A Century of Japanese Intelligence – Part 1

Swan, W.M., Lietutenant Commander, RAN · Sep 30, 1974 ·

Lieutenant Commander Swan has made a comprehensive study of Japanese intelligence agencies, and in this series traces the historical significance of its origin. During his service career Lieutenant Commander Swan ...

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