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Japanese operations

The Witu Islands – were these the Wolf’s Lair?

Editorial Staff · Sep 20, 2015 ·

P & O’s Pacific Dawn recently completed a two week cruise to Papua New Guinea (PNG) with calls at Alotau (Milne Bay), Madang and Wewak. Unfortunately a low on-shore swell precluded ...

Book Review: Rising Sun, Falling Skies – The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II

Book reviewer · Jun 24, 2014 ·

Rising Sun, Falling Skies – The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II. By Jeffrey R. Cox. Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2014. Hardback of 487 pages with b&w photographs and ...

Cocos and Christmas Islands

Walter Burroughs · Dec 24, 2012 ·

These small isles to our north represent a microcosm of historical events taking place on a larger world stage. They encompass early exploration, colonial rule, resource booms, communications technology, and ...

Submersible Aircraft Carriers

A.N. Other · Mar 30, 2012 ·

By Driftwood The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines I-yonhyaku-gata Sensuikan completed towards the end of WW11 were for many years the largest and potentially the most formidable submarines ever built. Displacing ...

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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Leadership: Admiral of the Fleet Isoroku Yamamoto

NHSA Webmaster · Jun 4, 2007 ·

Editor’s Note: This essay was submitted as a graduation essay in History at the RANC, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Lieutenant Desmond Woods, RAN, History Co-ordinator, ...

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Rear Admiral Raizo Tanaka and his famous ‘Tokyo Express’

Dunne, Mike · Mar 3, 2006 ·

Admired by friend and foe alike for his exploits as commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Destroyer Squadron 2, Tanaka gained everlasting fame as their greatest leader of destroyer forces. ...

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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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HMS Thanet and HMAS Vampire – Malayan Night Action

Francis, Richard · Mar 9, 2002 ·

HMS Thanet was a destroyer of the “S” Class built in 1918 after the end of WWI and on the outbreak of WW2 was stationed with several sister ships with ...

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The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 – Naval Operations

Francis, Richard · Mar 9, 2002 ·

In mid 1941 the British naval defence of the Malayan peninsula comprised a small number of old cruisers and destroyers, all dating from the end of WW I or shortly ...

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