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Battle of Atlantic

Occasional Paper 21: Battle of the Atlantic Memorial

A.N. Other · May 18, 2025 ·

In January 2018 advice was received from a Society member that a Battle of the Atlantic memorial is to be constructed in Liverpool, as there is no dedicated memorial to ...

Occasional Paper 16: HMAS Australia and Atlantic rescue of Coastal CommandSunderland -1940

A.N. Other · May 17, 2025 ·

By LCDR Mac Gregory RANRetired   On Monday 28th October 1940. I was serving as an eighteen year oldMidshipman in HMAS “Australia”, an 8 inch gun cruiser. At that time, ...

Book Review: A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Games Helped Win World War Two

Book reviewer · Mar 28, 2020 ·

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Games Helped Win World War Two. By Simon Parkin. Hardback and paperback, 329 pages, Hachette, 2019. From ...

Occasional Paper 21: Battle of the Atlantic: Appeal for £2.5m memorial

David Stratton · Oct 29, 2018 ·

Artists Impression of the monument The charity needs to raise £2.5m for the planned monument on the Pier Head   A campaign to build a national memorial to the estimated ...

Lieutenant Commander Arthur Callaway, DSO, RANVR and the courage of HM Trawler Lady Shirley

A.N. Other · Dec 23, 2014 ·

Courage of HM Trawler lady Shirley Tow hundred miles west-south-west of the Canary Islands the Atlantic rollers surge endlessly eastward towards the African shore.  In October 1941, these were dangerous ...

The Battle of the Atlantic – Western Approaches Command

Gregory, Mackenzie J. · Sep 8, 2001 ·

One of the crucial decisions made during the Battle of the Atlantic was to relocate the Western Approaches Command on the 7th of February, 1941 from Plymouth to Liverpool. Admiral ...

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Book Review: Atlantic Odyssey

Book reviewer · Sep 1, 1999 ·

Title: Atlantic Odyssey Author: Michael Thwaites Publisher: Self-published This is a fascinating account of a little-known aspect (in Australia at least) of the Battle of the Atlantic, seen through the ...

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