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The debt owed to the Norwegian Merchant Service and MV Herstein

Editorial Staff · Mar 26, 2019 ·

What if anything what does Norway, at the far end of the northern hemisphere, have to do with the wartime security of Australia? As this story unfolds the answer is, ...

Operation Praying Mantis

A.N. Other · Dec 21, 2015 ·

By Scott Dalton  Scott Dalton is enrolled in an external studies program for a Master of Arts in military history through the University of New South Wales ADFA campus. The ...

Book Review: Albany’s ANZAC Convoys

Book reviewer · Sep 24, 2014 ·

Albany’s ANZAC Convoys by Roger Cunnington. Published by Digger Press, Albany, WA, 2014. Paperback of 176 pages with b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. $46.95, from sales@diggerpress.com or albanyconvoys@westnet.com.au. The release ...

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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Convoy System – WW1 and WW2 Comparisons

Gregory, Mackenzie J. · Jun 11, 1994 ·

In World War I the convoy system was not instituted until May 1917, whilst in World War II convoys were quickly organised soon after war was declared in September 1939. ...

Island Traders – Four and Twenty Dutchmen

Thomson, Max · Sep 13, 1987 ·

THEY WERE NOT WARSHIPS. They were not even Australian. Yet the contribution they made to Australia’s survival in the dark years of 1942 and 1943 when Japanese forces swept so ...

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