Memories of the early days of WW2 By John Philip Stevenson
When the War broke out I was on exchange with the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean as a very lowly Midshipman. We immediately sailed for our war station in Simonstown […]
Category: War & Operations
THE FACE OF NAVAL BATTLE: THE CORAL SEA
ANNUAL COMMEMORATION AND LUNCH SYDNEY, 7 MAY 2016 Address by Rear Admiral James Goldrick AO CSC RAN at the Australian National Maritime Museum Sydney We think of the face of […]
HMAS Canberra and HMAS Shropshire “ Never Say Die “ Address at Canberra Memorial – Lake Burley Griffin 7 August 2016
By LCDR Desmond Woods, RANR Karl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is the realm of uncertainly. The lived experience of war at sea bears this out. Ships like […]
Hobart in Vietnam: Followup Letters
Hobart in Vietnam: Follow-up letters by Ian Callaway and David Holthouse Part 2 of 2. Read Part 1 here Ian Callaway (left) is at the Naval Gunfire Support (NGS) plotting […]
HMAS Hobart in Vietnam
HMAS Hobart in Vietnam by Harry Daish Part 1 of 2 This tale started as a story for grandchildren eager to learn details of their grandfather’s service in a destroyer […]
CDT 3 in Iraq
Australian Clearance Diving Team Three in Khwar AzZubayr, Iraq by Troy Miles and Paul Papalia You can be forgiven for thinking we dropped off the radar screen after our formal […]
P-40 Kittyhawk in WW II
The P-40 Curtiss Kittyhawk The P-40 Kittyhawk – goes well, downhill. The aircraft type flown by Nicky Barr in RAAF 3 Squadron had a long and colourful history that commenced […]
Liberty Ships
Liberty Ships Disaster loomed. The RAF had blunted Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring’s blitz, but by September 1941 VADM Karl Dönitz’s Type VII U-Boats were regularly decimating Atlantic convoys. It was becoming […]
Operation Jaywick and HMAS Krait: 1943
Operation Jaywick and HMAS Krait A remarkable raid, called Operation Jaywick, culminated on the night of 26/27 September 1943, 64 years ago, when six men in three folboat canoes attacked […]
RAN HFV Memorial
RAN Helicopter Flight Vietnam memorials By Robert Ray Gloria Shipp, widow of LACM Noel Shipp, and Sue Marschaulk, widow of WO I Glen Moore, unveiled a monument at the US […]