Royal Australian Navy, 1942-1945
Author: George Hermon Gill
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 824
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Royal Australian Navy, 1939-1942
Author: G. Hermon Gill
Publisher: Canberra : Australian War Memorial
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralia 1942
Author: Peter Dean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 110703227X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the way in which Australia confronted the challenge of the shadow of war in 1942.
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY 1942-1945 Volume 2
Author: G Herman Gill
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Published: 2022-04-20
Total Pages: 820
ISBN-13: 9781474535847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second volume tells the story of Australian Navy from March 1942 until the end of the war, chronicling the activities of the ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy alongside those of their British and American Allies.
Forgotten Fleet 2
Author: Bill Lunney
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780975168301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dutch Naval Air Force Against Japan
Author: Tom Womack
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2023-10-04
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 147667888X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Dutch Naval Air Force--or Marine Luchtvaart Dienst (MLD)--played a significant but largely overlooked role in the opening months of the Pacific War. With 175 aircraft, the MLD greatly outnumbered the combined forces of its American and British allies. In three months of intense combat, the MLD lost 50 percent of its personnel and 80 percent of its aircraft, as the Netherlands' colonial empire was stripped away. This book details MLD operations during the Japanese invasion of Dutch East Indies, giving a comprehensive overview of organization, personnel, aircraft, equipment and tactics. For the first time in English, the failed evacuation of Java is examined.
Australia 1944-45
Author: Peter J. Dean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 110708346X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThoroughly researched and generously illustrated, Australia 1944-45 is the compelling final instalment in Peter Dean's Pacific War series.
Darwin 1942
Author: Bob Alford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-23
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1472816897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the devastating raids on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, lightning advances by Japanese forces throughout the Pacific and the Far East, and a desperate battle by the Allied command in the Dutch East Indies, it became evident that an attack on Australia was more a matter of 'when' and not 'if'. On 19 February, just eleven weeks after the attacks on Pearl Harbor and two weeks after the fall of Singapore, the same Japanese battle group that had attacked Hawaii was ordered to attack the ill-prepared and under-defended Australian port of Darwin. Publishing 75 years after this little-known yet devastating attack, this fully illustrated study details what happened on that dramatic day in 1942 with the help of contemporary photographs, maps, and profiles of the commanders and machines involved in the assault.
The Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean, 1942–1944
Author: Charles Stephenson
Publisher: Pen and Sword Maritime
Published: 2022-04-06
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1526783622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the British Eastern Fleet, which operated in the Indian Ocean against Japan, has rarely been told. Although it was the largest fleet deployed by the Royal Navy prior to 1945 and played a vital part in the theater it was sent to protect, it has no place in the popular consciousness of the naval history of the Second World War. So Charles Stephenson’s deeply researched and absorbing narrative gives this forgotten fleet the recognition it deserves. British prewar naval planning for the Far East is part of the story, as is the disastrous loss of the battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse in 1941, but the body of the book focuses on the new fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir James Somerville, and its operations against the Japanese navy and aircraft as well as Japanese and German submarines. Later in the war, once the fleet had been reinforced with an American aircraft carrier, it was strong enough to take more aggressive actions against the Japanese, and these are described in vivid detail. Charles Stephenson’s authoritative study should appeal to readers who have a special interest in the war with Japan, in naval history more generally and Royal Navy in particular.
1942
Author: Bob Wurth
Publisher: Pan Australia
Published: 2008-11-01
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1741982030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1942 was the year of Australia's greatest peril – as Darwin was destroyed by bombing, Australian ships were torpedoed within sight of our coast, midget Japanese submarines attacked shipping in Sydney Harbour, and the Japanese army invaded New Guinea on its inexorable march south. This is the real story of the genuine and imminent threat to Australia in that fateful year. On the beautiful Inland Sea of Japan – the heartland of the Imperial Japanese Navy – and in frenetic wartime Tokyo, zealous staff officers and their illogical admirals debated the invasion of an almost defenceless nation. The Imperial Japanese Army, meanwhile, opposed the attack, foreseeing a looming military quagmire. In Australia, Allied defence chiefs all but dismissed the chances of holding Darwin. For months, Australia's fate hung in the balance. 1942 is a story of desperate bravery and criminal stupidity. Most of all, it is the story of Australians left high and dry, under the looming shadow of a terrible invasion, and the steps that an inexperienced leader, John Curtin, took to save his country in its darkest days.
