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The Dominion Yachtsmen Scheme: Australian Volunteers in the Royal Navy 1940-45 – Part 1

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2019 ·

By Janet Roberts Billett Following the outbreak of war with Germany on 9 September 1939, the losses for the Royal Navy in ships and men through repeated U-boat and air ...

Recommended for a High Award

Wright, Ken · Dec 10, 2010 ·

The WW II battleships of Hitler’s Kriegsmarine prowled the convoy routes of the North Atlantic, pushed beyond the Equator, challenged the enemy in the arctic blizzards of the Barents Sea ...

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Letters: St Nazaire Raid

Letter Writer · Mar 1, 1999 ·

Your article on the story of the St. Nazaire raid – “[The raid on St Nazaire 1942]” – left me rather amused. In the first instance the ship mentioned should ...

St Nazaire – The Greatest Commando Raid of WWII

Evans, P. · Mar 1, 1999 ·

The following article is copyright© and has been prepared by P. Evans, on behalf of the Fairmile Association, for the Naval Historical Society of Australia Inc. It is for their ...

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The raid on St Nazaire 1942

A.N. Other · Sep 18, 1998 ·

1942, and the British were clinging on while their convoys were only just getting enough supplies through to keep the people and the war effort going. But on the Biscay ...

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