Download or read book A Shot of History Attack on Sydney Harbour written by Doctor Tom Lewis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney Harbour was attacked by midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. An accommodation vessel of the Royal Australian Navy was torpedoed, and 21 sailors died. The midget submarines were hunted down, and two sunk. War had already come to northern Australia, and now the southern cities were made bitterly aware that the world-wide conflict had reached them. The midget submarine attack was only the beginning: gun strikes were made against land targets, and more enemy submarines came south, attacking freighters up and down the continent’s eastern coast. This new accounting of the night Sydney Harbour was attacked reveals new details of the fight that ensued and sets some of the previous historical accounts right. The text is supported by numerous photos as well as extensive plans of the midget submarines, and details of the curious stories following the war, including the discovery of the third midget submarine, sunk off the New South Wales coast.

Download or read book Hear Them Roar written by Elizabeth Fysh and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a marvellous collection of inspiring stories from some of Australia’s most soul-stirring women; an eye-opening window into astonishing lives built on strength of character and an independent spirit. From medical professionals who achieved astonishing success with ground-breaking methods, to a celebrated nurse who survived the horrors of a World War II prison camp, Elizabeth Fysh takes the fortunate reader on a fascinating journey. The subjects are exceptional people and include the woman who created Australia’s first luxury hotel, the pioneer anthropologist who recorded the lives of the Wik people in Cape York, and the journalist who was at the centre of intrigue between the two World Wars. There’s the mystery of the celebrated decorator whose brutal murder was never solved, the travails of the hardy Outback stockwoman immortalised in a Slim Dusty hit, and so many more eye-opening accounts of remarkable women with unbreakable mettle.

Download or read book On the Homefront written by Jennifer Anne Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Western Australians, World War II began as a 'phoney war', remote from their shores, but by 1942 the homefront faced the real threat of invasion, with the Japanese at the doorstep.

Download or read book Abbreviations Dictionary written by Dean A. Stahl and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 1529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 2001: Abbreviations, nicknames, jargon, and other short forms save time, space, and effort - provided they are understood. Thousands of new and potentially confusing terms become part of the international vocabulary each year, while our communications are relayed to one another with increasing speed. PDAs link to PCs. The Net has grown into data central, shopping mall, and grocery store all rolled into one. E-mail is faster than snail mail, cell phones are faster yet - and it is all done 24/7. Longtime and widespread use of certain abbreviations, such as R.S.V.P., has made them better understood standing alone than spelled out. Certainly we are more comfortable saying DNA than deoxyribonucleic acid - but how many people today really remember what the initials stand for? The Abbreviations Dictionary, Tenth Edition gives you this and other information from Airlines of the World to the Zodiacal Signs.

Download or read book Ian Potter written by Peter Yule and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbane, charming and with a razor-sharp intellect, Ian Potter was a dominant figure in the Australian business world from the 1940s to the 1970s. He was one of the first Australian financiers with an international outlook, and did much to encourage trade and cultural links with Japan and other Asian nations. This title talks about Ian Potter.

Download or read book MS Pcz written by Michael Peschke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For researchers in business, government and academe, the ""Dictionary"" decodes abbreviations and acronyms for approximately 720,000 associations, banks, government authorities, military intelligence agencies, universities and other teaching and research establishments.

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Download or read book United States Forces in New Zealand 1942 1945 written by Denys Bevan and published by MacPherson Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Lolita and the Hollywood Fleet written by William Blunt and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 22nd of November 1941, the Sydney based motor cruiser, Lolita, was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Lolita. She was one of thirteen 'pleasure' cruisers requisitioned by the Navy to form its Sydney fleet of Channel Patrol Boats (CPB). That fleet became known as the Hollywood Fleet. Throughout the years of war in the Pacific, those Channel Patrol Boats with their crews worked to protect Australia. Several, including HMAS Lolita, fought in the Battle of Sydney Harbour. At least one of the fleet operated in Darwin during the Japanese bombing raids. She was later joined by two others. Another served on the south-west coast of New Guinea while two others reached the north coast of New Guinea with one eventually serving in Indonesia. One of the vessels which served on the north coast of New Guinea was HMAS Lolita before she was destroyed by a massive explosion. That explosion took the lives of two naval mechanics and injured others. Three other cruisers of the Hollywood Fleet were destroyed whilst on naval service. Another was gutted by fire whilst on patrol, but was salvaged and rebuilt and remarkably, remains afloat today along with two other vessels of the fleet. The whereabouts of the other six, remain to be discovered.This is the historical record of Lolita and HMAS Lolita, and the other motor cruisers that formed the Hollywood Fleet. It is also the record of how Lolita and her commander and crew were written out of history, and how they and their sister ships of the Hollywood Fleet and their crews, deserve their recognition and place in Australia's history.

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Download or read book New Zealand Naval Vessels written by R. J. McDougall and published by GP Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Comprehensive Dictionary of Acronyms and Abbreviations of Institutions and Organizations Loc Pars written by Michael Peschke and published by De Gruyter Saur. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: