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Naval Battles in the Solomon Islands over August/November 1942 turn the tide of the Pacific War
02 February 2003

Keywords: ww2 naval personal

Solomon Islands Pictures
24 January 2003

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More Solomon Islands pictures
31 January 2003

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HMAS Goorangai chopped in two by M.V. Duntroon. Small Mine Sweeper first RAN ship lost in WW2
23 January 2003

Keywords: ww2 naval

The Discovery of Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, and its early settlement
16 January 2003

Keywords: naval personal

Wyatt Earp, A Ship of Several Names and a Lifetime of Adventure.
09 January 2003

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Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Doolittle’s B-25 Raid on Japan. 18th. of April 1942.
09 January 2003

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Gun Turret from USS Monitor Sees the Light of Day After 140 Years
03 January 2003

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Memorial to HMAS Sydney and her crew is dedicated at Geraldton in Western Australia
30 December 2002

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Canadian Tribal Destroyer HMCS Athabaskan Located off Brittany, France
29 December 2002

Keywords: WW2 naval

Found! Two Dutch Light Cruisers, sunk by the Japanese Navy in 1942
28 December 2002

Keywords: WW2 naval

My Mother and Father's Wedding Day
13 December 2002

Keywords: personal

Operation Downfall, The Planned Invasion of Japan on November 1st. 1945
14 December 2002

Keywords: naval ww2 personal

Pictures for Operation Downfall
14 December 2002

Keywords: naval history personal

The Charting of Australia: Matthew Flinders. 1774 - 1814, Master Navigator and Explorer
22 December 2002

Keywords: naval

History of the Boatswain's Call
04 December 2002

Keywords: Naval

A few Sea Birds from the Oceans Of the World
30 November 2002

Keywords: personal naval

The Loss of Trial in 1622, Oldest Wreck on the Australian Coast
29 November 2002

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The Genesis of the Royal Australian Navy
27 November 2002

Keywords: naval ww1 ww2 personal

The Lonely Vigil. Australian Coast Watching in The Pacific War.
25 November 2002

Keywords: WW2

Loss of HMAS Sydney
23 November 2002

Keywords: naval ww2

Arlington National Cemetery. Virginia. United States of America.
22 November 2002

Keywords: personal naval

The Role of the Rescue Ships in the Battle of the Atlantic
22 November 2002

Keywords: ww2 naval

German U-Boat U-534. Her Three Separate Lives. From 1942 /1996, and is still on display near Liverpool.
21 November 2002

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The Blue Star Line's Tuscan Star, Torpedoed and sunk. The 6th. of September, 1942. Another Victim of the U-Boat War.
21 November 2002

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The Shipwrecks of King Island in Bass Strait
20 November 2002

Keywords: WW1 WW2 Naval

Ex Prisoners of War Memorial, Botanical Gardens, Wendouree Parade, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
18 November 2002

Keywords: WW1 WW2 Naval

Certificate of World War Two Service
18 November 2002

Keywords: personal ww2

Blessing of the Royal Australian Navy Cruisers Memorial Cairn, November 2002
18 November 2002

Keywords: naval personal

Radio Interview on 10 November, 2002
10 November 2002

Keywords: personal naval WW2

HMAS Shropshire Memorial Tree, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
27 October 2002

Keywords: naval personal WW2

The Victorian Chapter of The Naval Historical Society of Australia Inc. is remembering the year of 1942 with a photographic display
27 October 2002

Keywords: naval WW2

Wreck of Royal Navy Submarine E-10 found after 87 years
20 October 2002

Keywords: Naval WW1

We get letters and emails
02 November 2002

Keywords: history naval personal

Liberty Ship pictures
10 October 2002

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Update on the Whereabout of the USS Canberra Bell
08 October 2002

Keywords: personal WW2 naval

Our 7 Day Inside Passage Cruise and 2 day Rocky Mountaineer  train trip
04 October 2002

Keywords: personal

Pictures from our Alaska and Rocky Mountain trip.
28 September 2002

Keywords: personal

"Waltzing Matilda"
22 September 2002

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Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War
15 November 2002

Keywords: Naval History

60th Anniversary of the sinking of HMAS Canberra, at the Battle of Savo Island on the 9th. of August 1942.
08 August 2002

Keywords: Personal WW2 Naval

CSS H L Hunley, the Confederate submersible sunk off Charleston Harbour in 1864, found and recovered
19 September 2002

Keywords: Naval History

Admiralty House, The Sydney Residence of the Governor General of Australia
31 July 2002

Keywords: Personal History Naval

Bits of Naval History are tucked into all sort of corners across Australia
31 July 2002

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Royal Australian Navy Virtual Fleet
31 July 2002

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Shropshire Park. Ulverstone Tasmania.
29 July 2002

Keywords: Personal WW2 Naval

Letter from the High Commissioner, The Republic of Malta
25 July 2002

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Jervis Year. The Class of 1936. Royal Australian Naval College.
25 July 2002

Keywords: Personal Naval WW2

Picture of Jervis Year. The Class of 1936. Royal Australian Naval College.
15 November 2002

Keywords: Personal Naval WW2

Life Begins At Eighty
21 July 2002

Keywords: Personal

Holbrook, New South Wales, Submarine Town
21 July 2002

Keywords: Naval WW1 WW2 History

Battle of Matapan
30 June 2002

Keywords: Naval WW2

Four Australian Icons
28 June 2002

Keywords: Personal History General

Salvaging the Russian Atomic Submarine Kursk
24 June 2002

Keywords: Naval

Some Quotable Quotes from random sources
23 June 2002

Keywords: Personal

USS Arizona Memorial, Hawaii
21 June 2002

Keywords: Naval WW2

Royal Navy Town Class Destroyers of WW2
20 June 2002

Keywords: WW1 WW2 Naval

WW2 Liberty Ships - The Bridge of Steel - Spanning the Atlantic - Linking Britain to America
18 June 2002

Keywords: Naval WW2

The Laws of the Navy
18 June 2002

Keywords: Lore

Fourteen Australian Prime Ministers I have known
18 June 2002

Keywords: Personal

Why is a Ship Called She?
14 June 2002

Keywords: Naval

Captain James Cook's Endeavour Journal 1768-71
11 June 2002

Keywords: Naval Personal

Anzac Day, Chatswood, Edward wears my Miniature Medals. 25th. April, 2002
09 June 2002

Keywords: Personal

Cruiser Cairn Queenscliff, Victoria
09 June 2002

Keywords: Naval Personal WW2

World's luckiest sailor article in the Herald Sun 5 May 2002
07 June 2002

Keywords: Personal Naval

Anzac Class Frigate HMAS Warramunga. FFH-152
08 June 2002

Keywords: WW2 PostWar Personal Naval

The Lone Sailor - The United States Navy Memorial, Washington DC
02 June 2002

Keywords: Personal Naval Postwar

Marauders of the Sea, German Armed Merchant Raiders During World War I
13 November 2002

Keywords: WW1 Naval

Marauders of the Sea, German Armed Merchant Raiders During World War 2
30 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval Personal

H.M.A.S. Canberra and the Battle of Savo Island
03 June 2002

Keywords: Naval WW2 personal

Under Water Warfare, The Struggle Against the Submarine Menace, 1939 -1945
01 June 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval Personal

Tragedy at Sea
28 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval

The Victoria Cross at Sea
28 May 2002

Keywords: History Naval

U.S.S. Patterson
28 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval Personal

The Death of HMAS Armidale
29 July 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval

A brief biography
31 May 2002

Keywords: Personal

A Royal Forgery Aboard HMAS Vengeance
15 January 2003

Keywords: PostWar Personal

Why is champagne used to launch ships, and how long has this been going on?
27 May 2002

Keywords: Lore

Beneath The Southern Cross
26 May 2002

Keywords: Lore General

U S Cruiser, USS Phoenix escapes Pearl Harbor attack to be sunk in the Falklands War, as the Argentinian Cruiser, General Belgrano.
26 May 2002

Keywords: PostWar Naval

Memorial plaque for HMAS Shropshire at the Australian War Memorial. Canberra.
24 May 2002

Keywords: PostWar Naval Personal

HMAS Shropshire's crew, taken in Lingayen Gulf, Northern Luzon, the Philippines
12 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval Personal

HMAS Australia to the rescue
14 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval Personal

HMAS Australia in the Atlantic
22 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval History Personal

Cunard Liner Queen Mary runs down HMS Curacoa
19 October 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval History Personal

Capturing the Enigma Machine
22 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval

The Sinking of British Battleship, HMS Royal Oak, at Scapa Flow, by German Submarine, U-47
22 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval

German Bombers rain bombs down  on Liverpool. A close run thing for HMAS Australia, December 1940
19 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval Personal.

Scapa Flow and its wrecks - my article in another web site.
19 May 2002

Keywords: WW1 Naval Personal

The Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow on the 21st of June 1919
18 May 2002

Keywords: WW1 Naval

The execution of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, carried out on the 18th. of April 1943
15 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval

Official party entering Parliament House Canberra for the Governor General to open the Australian Parliament in 1952
13 May 2002

Keywords: PostWar Personal.

Links to other interesting web sites
15 January 2003

Keywords: PostWar General Personal

The invitation for friends to help celebrate my 80th birthday on Saturday the 9th. of February 2002
11 May 2002

Keywords: PostWar Personal

Certificate of Clearance for Titanic from Queenstown, Ireland
11 May 2002

Keywords: General History

This is a copy of the surrender document signed in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri
25 September 2002

Keywords: WW2 History

The letter telling me I was awarded A Queen Elizabeth Coronation Medal
10 May 2002

Keywords: PostWar Personal

What does the word Knot mean when used by the world's Navies?
09 May 2002

Keywords: Lore History

Sunset on the Zambesi River, Zimbabwe
09 May 2002

Keywords: PostWar Personal

Book Review - Longitude by Dava Sobel
08 May 2002

Keywords: General History Personal

Photo exhibit - Coral Sea
06 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 PostWar Naval Personal

"Operation Menace." September 23, 24, 25, 1940. HMAS Australia and the debacle at Dakar with General Charles de Gaulle
01 May 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval Personal

Gibraltar, after nearly 300 years of British control, is it going back to Spanish ownership?
01 May 2002

Keywords: PostWar History

International Date Line
30 April 2002

Keywords: Lore History

Japanese Midget Submarines Attack Sydney Harbour on the night of May31/June 1, 1942
30 April 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval Personal

Commander A. Covey-Crump - A collection of Naval Slang
30 April 2002

Keywords: Lore History

The Nelson Years of 1793-1805
22 October 2002

Keywords: History Naval

Anzac Cove, Gallipoli Turkey, for Anzac Day Ceremony 1998
28 April 2002

Keywords: WW1 History Naval

The Loss of USS Indianapolis, gone missing, but not missed
27 April 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval

The Role of the Submarine in World War 2
26 April 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval

The escape of the German battlecruiser, Goeben, and the light cruiser, Breslau, in 1914
26 April 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval

The Role of Western Approaches Command in the Battle of the Atlantic
24 April 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval History PostWar Personal

I-52 - Japan's Golden Submarine
24 April 2002

Keywords: PostWar Naval

Able Seaman Nuisance
23 April 2002

Keywords: PostWar General Personal

Blockade Runner
22 April 2002

Keywords: WW2 Naval Personal

AE 1, AE 2, and J Class Submarines in The Royal Australian Navy
15 December 2002

Keywords: WW1 Naval Personal

Kamikaze Attack
09 April 2002

Keywords: WW2 Personal

Searching for the ship's bell and visiting Washington
27 March 2002

Keywords: PostWar WW2 Naval Personal

 

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