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| | NDBD timeline - 1942 » Naval Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | HMA Ships NAPIER, NIZAM and NORMAN, (destroyers), were with the British Eastern Fleet which was sent to the Andaman Islands, hoping to divert the attention of the Japanese from the Solomon Islands. |
 | | DUBBO was laid down in Mort’s Dock, Sydney, on 13 October 1941, and launched on 7 March 1942. |
 | | HMAS VIGILANT, (auxiliary patrol vessel), commanded by SBLT H. Bennett, RANR, sailed from Darwin on her first voyage to occupied Timor, with supplies for the Australian commando force, (Sparrow Force). |
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