Author: Simon J. HallPublisher:
ISBN: 9781849953887
Category : SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Last Voyage to Wewak
Author: Simon J. HallPublisher: Whittles
ISBN: 9781849952538
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is an important historical record of life at sea during the last quarter of the 20th century, a way of life now vanished. It's a tale of a highly charged and turbulent life written in a captivating and arresting style and is the third in Simon Hall's eloquent maritime trilogy. His unique travel story paints the world in a way where even the mundane becomes compelling.
Snapshots on a Journey
Author: Ian F.M. Saint-YvesPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1456778862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
THIS BOOK IS A PERSONAL JOURNEY FROM INDIA, VIA SCOTLAND, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, AUSTRALIA, SOLIMON ISLANDS, SAUDI ARABIA AND BACK TO SCOTLAND. IT HIGHLIGHTS MY WORKING AND PERSONAL LIFE AS AN OBSTETRICIAN IN A PRIMITIVE SOCIETY TO THE RELATIVELY SOPHISTICATED IN SAUDI ARABIA BEFORE RETURNING TO SCOTLAND.
The Coastwatchers: Operation Ferdinand and the Fight for the South Pacific
Author: Eric A. FeldtPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359860745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The Coastwatchers is the fascinating story of the unsung heroic civilian spotters of World War 2 who roamed the coastlines of their home islands and reported back enemy sightings to Allied Intelligence. Author Eric Feldt led Operation Ferdinand, part of the build-up to the Normandy landings, in which the Coastwatchers, by this time on the US Navy's payroll, played a critical role. His intimate knowledge of Ferdinand, and his familiarity with the Coastwatchers of the Pacific islands, provides a unique perspective on this little known but important chapter of military history.
Undersea Warrior
Author: Don KeithPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451238109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The remarkable true story of Dudley “Mush” Morton, the most admired—and feared—submarine commander of World War II Mush Morton was a warrior without peer. At the helm of the USS Wahoo he completely changed the way the submarines fought in the Pacific War. He would relentlessly attack the Japanese at every opportunity, burning through his supply of torpedoes in record time on every patrol. Over the course of only nine months and five patrols, Morton racked up an astounding list of achievements, including being the first American skipper to wipe out an entire enemy convoy single-handedly. Here, for the first time, is the life and legend of a heroic submarine commander who fought the war on his own terms, and changed the course of the undersea war in the Pacific.
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Author: Francis Peter SwiftMacArthur's Victory
Author: Harry GaileyPublisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 0307415937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A GREAT WARRIOR AT THE PEAK OF HIS POWERS In March 1942, General Douglas MacArthur faced an enemy who, in the space of a few months, captured Malaya, Burma, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and, from their base at Raubaul in New Britain, threaten Australia. Upon his retreat to Australia, MacArthur hoped to find enough men and matériel for a quick offensive against the Japanese. Instead, he had available to him only a small and shattered air force, inadequate naval support, and an army made up almost entirely of untried reservists. Here is one of history’s most controversial commanders battling his own superiors for enough supplies, since President Roosevelt favored the European Theater; butting heads with the Navy, which opposed his initiatives; and on his way to making good his promise of liberating the Philippines. In the battles for Buna, Lae, and Port Moresby, the capture of Finschhafen, and other major actions, he would prove his critics wrong and burnish an image of greatness that would last through the Korean War. This was the “other” Pacific War: the one MacArthur fought in New Guinea and, against all odds and most predictions, decisively won.
Author: Tarra
Author: Jack PeelPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1922387452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Tarra describes the 25 years of service provided to the nation by a 125-foot wooden cargo vessel, operated by the Australian Army from her launch in 1945 to her abandonment in huge seas off the north coast of New South Wales in 1965. During the war in the South Pacific, the only mode of transport available to provide food ammunition and supplies to the fighting forces and civilian population to the north of Australia, other than aircraft and pack horses, was seagoing small craft and small ships. The Tarra story follows her launch in Tasmania in 1945, when the ship was employed in dumping ammunition off the east coast of Australia. Based in Newcastle and later in Cairns, she was seconded to the Graves Registration Unit during the establishment of the Bomana War Cemetery near Port Moresby, and then lent to the civil authorities to collect copra from remote islands. Tarra provided the only form of transport for materials and personnel for the construction of the Vanimo Outstation of the Pacific Islands Regiment on the Dutch border in 1952, and she continued to resupply the Company base for the next ten years, making two voyages per year from Brisbane. Tarra and her sister, ship Vasse, played a key role in training soldiers to become sailors, particularly in the Citizen Military Forces and in the development of the Australian Regular Army after the war and during the Pentropic experiment. In declining condition, she was sold to the Societe Marine Caledonian and renamed Milos Del Mar in April 1965. The dramatic rescue of her civilian crew eight months later and her abandonment to sink slowly in rough seas was described on the front pages of major newspapers at the time and by the commander of the Air Force Sea Air Rescue aircraft, thereby completing Tarra's story. Army water transport had been operated by the Royal Australian Engineers however the function was taken over by the newly formed Royal Australian Corps of Transport. Army water transport continues today with landing craft operated by 35 Water Transport Squadron RACT.
