MRS. RUBY BOYE-JONES lived with her husband, Mr. Skov Boye, at Vanikoro, a small tropical island in the Santa Cruz group of the then British Solomon Islands Protectorate at the ...
WWII operations
HMAS Manoora Enters the Pacific War
Extracts from the War Diary of former member, the late A.K. Chatto HMAS MANOORA sailed from Sydney at 1800 Saturday, November 22 1941. After clearing the swept channel we took ...
The Ketty Brovig and Coburg Sinking 1941
Lingayen Gulf Signals – 6 to 9 July, 1945
From CTG 77.3 to Australia ‘Sorry the Hell Birds concentrated on you. My deep regrets for losses in the stout ship’s company.’ From Australia to CTG 77.3 ‘Thank you very ...
Queer Jobs
The Loss of HMS Dorsetshire
Memories of the Emden and her Captain Karl Von Meuller
The Luftwaffe Anti-Shipping Missile Threat During WW II
The Battle of Tsushima, 1905
Editor’s Note: On the night of 8th February 1904, Vice Admiral Togo led the Japanese Combined Fleet against Russian naval units anchored at Port Arthur at the western end of ...
Bomb Alley, 1942
IN 1942 THE BOMB ALLEY of this story extended 400 miles along the central Mediterranean with every mile within 30 minutes of enemy airfields. At the eastern end the strategically ...