Hobart in Vietnam: Followup Letters
Hobart in Vietnam: Follow-up letters by Ian Callaway and David Holthouse Part 2 of 2. Read Part 1 here Ian Callaway (left) is at the Naval Gunfire Support (NGS) plotting […]
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HMAS Hobart in Vietnam
HMAS Hobart in Vietnam by Harry Daish Part 1 of 2 This tale started as a story for grandchildren eager to learn details of their grandfather’s service in a destroyer […]
CDT 3 in Iraq
Australian Clearance Diving Team Three in Khwar AzZubayr, Iraq by Troy Miles and Paul Papalia You can be forgiven for thinking we dropped off the radar screen after our formal […]
P-40 Kittyhawk in WW II
The P-40 Curtiss Kittyhawk The P-40 Kittyhawk – goes well, downhill. The aircraft type flown by Nicky Barr in RAAF 3 Squadron had a long and colourful history that commenced […]
Liberty Ships
Liberty Ships Disaster loomed. The RAF had blunted Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring’s blitz, but by September 1941 VADM Karl Dönitz’s Type VII U-Boats were regularly decimating Atlantic convoys. It was becoming […]
Operation Jaywick and HMAS Krait: 1943
Operation Jaywick and HMAS Krait A remarkable raid, called Operation Jaywick, culminated on the night of 26/27 September 1943, 64 years ago, when six men in three folboat canoes attacked […]
RAN HFV Memorial
RAN Helicopter Flight Vietnam memorials By Robert Ray Gloria Shipp, widow of LACM Noel Shipp, and Sue Marschaulk, widow of WO I Glen Moore, unveiled a monument at the US […]
Nelson and Villeneuve at Trafalgar: 1805
VADM Pierre Charles Jean Baptiste Silvestre Villeneuve (1763-1806) Five years younger than Nelson, VADM Villeneuve commanded the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar. He was born into a Valensoles, […]
Nelson and VADM Gravina
VADM Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli (1756-1806) Compared with Villeneuve, about whom much has been written, his junior Spanish counterpart at Trafalgar, VADM Gravina, remains a brave but shadowy figure. […]
Nelson and de Brueys at Aboukir: 1798
VADM Francois Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers, Compte de Brueys (1753-1798) VADM de Brueys, commander of the French Fleet during Nelson’s Battle of the Nile in Aboukir Bay, was five years older […]