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In the resulting battle, Kormoran and Sydney were both crippled, with Sydney sinking with the loss of all her 645 crew and 78 of Kormoran ' s crew being either killed in the battle or dying before they could be rescued by passing ships. [30] Kormoran was the only Axis ship to conduct attacks in Australian waters during 1941 and the last Axis ...
The only ship sunk during the war by a German U-boat in the Pacific Ocean. [10] Attack on ship, sinking and rescue of crew described in the Australian Official Histories of the Second World War. [11] (Liberty ship) 6/2/45 U 862: SS Peter Silvester: 7176 820 nm SW of Fremantle In the Indian Ocean, 32 of crew lost [12] (Liberty ship)
faster ships GUS: Mediterranean to Chesapeake Bay: 21 December 1942 27 May 1945 92 slower ships HG: Gibraltar to Liverpool: 26 September 1939 19 September 1942 89 replaced by MKS convoys after Operation Torch: HX: Halifax Harbour (later New York City) to Liverpool: 16 Sept 1939 23 May 1945 377 9-knot convoys for ships of sustained speeds less ...
Australian and Dutch POWs at Tarsau, Thailand in 1943. Australia declared war on Thailand on 2 March 1942 and an Australian–Thai Peace Treaty was signed on 3 April 1946. Just under 29,000 Australians were taken prisoner by the Axis during the war. Only 14,000 of the 21,467 Australian prisoners taken by the Japanese survived captivity.
Attacks on continental Australia during World War II were relatively rare due to Australia's geographic position. However, Axis surface raiders and submarines periodically attacked shipping in the Australian coastal waters from late 1940 to early 1945. Japanese aircraft bombed towns and airfields in Northern Australia on 97 occasions during ...
Closing the canal to Axis shipping would force Axis ships to travel around the Peloponnese, thus exposing them to Royal Air Force bombers and Allied submarines based in Egypt and Malta. [15] The German intervention into the North African campaign further increased the canal's importance as Pireaus became a major center of Axis logistics.
Australia's Ships of War. Cremorne, New South Wales: Angus and Robertson. ISBN 0-207-12927-4. OCLC 2525523. Carlton, Mike (2012). Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and Her Crew. North Sydney, NSW: Random House Australia. ISBN 978-1-86471-133-2. Cassells, Vic (2000). The Capital Ships: Their Battles and Their Badges. East Roseville, New ...
museum ship at Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney HMAS AE1: Submarine E: 1914 HMAS AE2: Submarine E: 1914–1915 HMAS Air Bird: Air-Sea Rescue Launch Air/Sea Search and Rescue Vessel 1945-1946 Transferred to the Royal Australian Air Force in 1949 HMAS Air Chief: Air-Sea Rescue Launch Air/Sea Search and Rescue Vessel 1944-1966 HMAS Air Clan