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Kingfishers over the Shoalhaven

Editorial Staff · Dec 16, 2023 ·

There is a fascinating small book by Barry Pattison titled Kingfishers in the Antipodes which was published in 1998 and later serialised in News & Views, the magazine of the ...

Occasional Paper 176: A Ship is Burning

Ken Wright · Dec 4, 2023 ·

By Ken Wright As the attractive blonde seventeen-year-old rode her push bike to work on the cold morning of 22 July 1942, the Japanese submarine I-11 had already torpedoed the American ...

Exmouth Gulf – Submariners’ Haven

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Colin Randall Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia In 1618, the Dutch East India Company ship Mauritius, under command of Willem Janszoon, landed near North West Cape and named Willem’s River, ...

Australians in the Decisive Thrust KING II – The Leyte Landings

A.N. Other · Dec 25, 2019 ·

 By Paul Baker Seventy-five years ago, on 18 October 1944, beaten only by the fast minesweepers and the attack forces securing the mouth of the Gulf, the crew of HMAS ...

Timor Submarine Rescue Operations

Editorial Staff · Dec 24, 2019 ·

One of the most significant rescue operations of Australian military forces occurred after the Japanese had overrun Dutch colonial western Timor in 1942. At this time Timor, seen as a ...

The Pong Su Incident – April 2003

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2019 ·

By Dennis J. Weatherall  The end of the Vietnam War resulted in the arrival into Australia of Vietnamese refugees with the first, known as ‘Boat People’, arriving in Darwin on ...

The RAAF at Sea before World War II

A.N. Other · Sep 24, 2018 ·

The following article first appeared in the Air Power Development Centre Bulletin Pathfinder, Issue 175 dated April 2012 and is reproduced with their kind permission. The perspective of our sister ...

Operation Solania: Regional Security in the South West Pacific

A.N. Other · Jun 24, 2018 ·

  The following article first appeared in the Air Power Development Centre Bulletin Pathfinder Issue 281 dated February 2017 and is reproduced with their kind permission. The perspective of a sister ...

RAAF Orions: Watching Over the Middle East

A.N. Other · Sep 24, 2013 ·

The prominence of ISR … is a clear reflection of its growing importance in enabling operational success in the increasingly complex environments in which the ADF is called upon to ...

Battle of the Bismark Sea

Wright, Ken · Dec 21, 2009 ·

‘We Sent the Japs to Hell and There They Learnt to Swim’ In 1942, the involvement of the Royal Australian Navy in operations against the Japanese in Malaya, Java, Timor, ...

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Is this the Future of Maritime Patrol?

Periodical, RAAF News · Dec 4, 2007 ·

The following article is an extract from a report in the November 2006 edition of RAAF News. The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) has successfully completed a trial aimed ...

SS William Dawes – A Ship is Burning (1942)

Wright, Ken · Sep 1, 2005 ·

This account records an incident in the Japanese submarine campaign off Australia and the efforts of the RAAF and VAOC to protect coastal shipping. As the attractive blonde 17 year ...

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Book Review: Australian Fighter Aces 1914-1953

Book reviewer · Jun 20, 2000 ·

AUSTRALIAN FIGHTER ACES 1914-1953, by A.D. Garrison (Published and distributed jointly by Air Power Studies Centre and Australian War Memorial 1999, 250x175mm, 117 b&w photos, 10 tables/lists, ix/188pp, card cover, ...

Obituary: LT. CDR. Palgrave Ebden Carr, D.F.C., RAN (Rtd.)

Davies, Barry · Sep 12, 1993 ·

Whilst documentation of our Naval history regarding ships and battles is well covered in our Naval Historical Review, these battles could not have been won or lost without the brave ...

Battle Of The Bismarck Sea – 1943

Hordern, Marsden · Jun 12, 1993 ·

Outside Rabaul’s Harbour, Rear Admiral Shofuku Kimura looked from the bridge of his flagship at a grey sea and a leaden sky. He hoped it would stay that way. Bad ...

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Book Review: The Third Brother

Book reviewer · Jun 11, 1991 ·

Chris Coulthard-Clark, 533 pages, illustrated, Allen and Unwin, Australia. In the spate of 50th Anniversary war books it comes as rather a surprise to have a book celebrating the 70th ...

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