The HMAS AUSTRALIA, later was attacked and hit again FIVE times by Kamikaze aircraft in 1944-1945 - attaining the uneviable record surviving the most number of Kamikaze strikes on any one ship during the Second World War.
In March 1944 he assumed command of HMAS Australia and took part in the Hollandia landings and the bombardment of Wakde and Aitape, and the landings at Biak, Noemfoor and Morotai.
HMAS Australia showing damage incurred from attacks by Japanese Kamikaze aircraft in Lingayen Gulf during the Luzon campaign.
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On 1 July, 84 B-24's, 36 A-20's, and 12 B-25's were over the island, dropping 195 tons of bombs, while 22 P-38's glide-bombed Kamiri and Kornasoren Drome installations with 11 tons of 1,000-pound bombs.
Losses of the 158th Inf were 1 killed, 11 wounded, and 2 injured; the rest of the casualties were apparently suffered by 27th Engrs or 2d ESB units.
For heroic action and signal leadership on 23 July, Sgt. Ray E. Eubanks, a squad leader of Company D, 503d Parachute Infantry (Company D was in the 2d Battalion), was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
He took command of his first ship, HMS Decoy, in June 1941 and was later awarded a DSO for his work, as Commander of HMAS Warramunga in the Philippines campaign.
First Edition; 84, appendices; hardcover [original cloth]; includes historic newspaper articles and photos glued into spaces in first part of the book o/wise very good condition.
First Edition; 84, appendices; hardcover [original cloth]; very small bottom RHS corner of front endpaper and main title page missing o/wise very good condition.
HMAS Ardent (P84) was an Attack-class patrol boat laid down by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland in October 1967, launched on 27 April 1968 and commissioned on 26 October 1968.
Ardent was transferred to the Hobart Port Division of the Royal Australian Navy Reserve on 18 June 1982 and paid off on 6 January 1994.
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She screened the carrier striking force which gave air support to the invasion of Aitape, Tanahmerah Bay and Humboldt, Bay, New Guinea, 22 April, then bombed shipping and shore installations at Truk 29-30 April.
The Kojo area was her target 16 October as she sailed in company with HMS Belfast, pilots from HMAS Sydney spotting.
An internal fuel capacity of 410 gallons could be increased to 1,010 gallons with two external drop tanks and gave the Lightning a range of 450 miles, making it the first fighter suitable as a long-range bomber escort.
An impediment to the writing of RAAF unit histories is that air force recruits may have done initial training, elementary flying and service flying together, and developed a group or “muster” sense, but that was diminished on posting to various operational squadrons.
For these reasons, plus the separation of functions within a squadron, squadrons have generally not had the strong sense of coherence felt by those soldiers who went into a battalion on its formation, and trained and fought in that one battalion.
In the south where mission stations were not occupied by the Japanese those missionaries who wrote of that period (P. Chatterton and A. Dupeyrat) or were written about (Bert Brown) have disclosed little about the war.
Includes: the foundations of defence policy, Australia's changing strategic outlook, capabilities for the defence of Australia, international defence interests, national defence support, funding our defence effort.
Australia's best known naval historian describes the outstanding achievement of the submarine AE2, the first Allied submarine to penetrate the Dardanelles, he argues that professional bravado, poor navigation and inaccurate charts resulted in the Anzacs being put on the wrong beach, this compelling account makes a major contribution to Gallipoli history.
The author did his doctoral thesis on HMAS Voyager and as a serving naval officer wrote this account with full access to official naval and Royal Commission records into the tragic slicing of the Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager in two by the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne with the loss of 82 men.
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Middle East Open Encyclopedia: HMASAitape (P84)
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POSTAL HISTORY: Aitape: 1969 (Oct.3) reg'd cover to Vic.
POSTAL HISTORY: Lobrum: 1950 cover (roughly opened) to NSW bearing Australia 1d tied by indistinct 'R.A.N. POST OFFICE 3' in blue, with H.M.A. SHIPS cachet.
POSTAL HISTORY: Lobrum: 1957 (Nov.15) "Tatts" cover to Tasmania bearing Australia 4d tied by indistinct 'R.A.N. POST OFFICE 3' in fl, H.M.A. SHIPS cachet, reverse endorsed 'HMAS Tarangau'.
