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Luzon: A 75th Anniversary Australian Battlefield Tour of the Philippines – Part 2

A.N. Other · Mar 27, 2020 ·

By Paul Baker On the morning of 15 December 2019, a small ceremony was held at the Australian War Memorial in the forecourt of the Maritime Academy of Asia and ...

HMAS Reserve in the Liberation of the Philippines and the Not-so-Little Tug that Could

A.N. Other · Jun 6, 2019 ·

By Paul Baker On Christmas Day 1944, just as the 34 members of the crew of HMAS Reserve celebrated the occasion aboard their ship in San Pedro Bay in the Philippines, ...

United States Naval Base Ulithi

A.N. Other · Sep 20, 2015 ·

By Noel Burgess We might be forgiven for not knowing much about the United States Naval Base at Ulithi, as for a long time its existence was kept secret, but ...

The Royal Australian Navy at Leyte Gulf October 1944

Kingsley Perry · Sep 23, 2014 ·

By Kingsley Perry The series of sea battles at and around Leyte Gulf in October 1944 marked a turning point in the Pacific war. Despite together representing the greatest sea ...

The Role of the RAN in the Liberation of the Philippines

Royle, Guy, Admiral · Mar 30, 2001 ·

An address by RADM Guy Griffiths, AO, DSO, DSC, RAN Retd at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne (Oct 2000) Together with the widely dispersed set-backs in late 1941 – early ...

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