In December 1941 CPO Don Walker was instructed to take a group of seamen, train them as a crew for a 3.7 inch howitzer and, when they were considered to ...
RAN operations
Escape From Gumusluck (Turkey, 1943)
HMAS Warramunga, the Second of the Australian Built Tribals 1942 – 1963
The Navy – Old and New
THE NAVY IN THE EARLY YEARS of the century prided itself in being capable of doing anything anybody else could do and do it better. It was the last years ...
RAN Guarded Nip Prisoners 1945-46
Clearance Divers Now 25
The Silver Anniversary of the Royal Australian Navy’s Clearance Diving Branch was celebrated this month and to mark the occasion we are publishing extracts from United and Undaunted by Lieutenant ...
The Fleet off Crete
For God’s Sake Send Help – They Sent the Navy
THE DARWIN DISASTER has been too well covered for us to attempt to document Cyclone Tracy and its tragic aftermath. However, it is this Society’s duty to emphasise that the ...