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There was considerable Axis naval activity in Australian waters during the Second World War, despite Australia being remote from the main battlefronts. German and Japanese warships and submarines entered Australian waters between 1940 and 1945 and attacked ships, ports and other targets.
This is a list of Allied ships sunk by Axis warships operating in Australian waters during the Second World War. Fifty four Axis surface raiders and submarines (both German and Japanese) carried out these attacks, sinking 53 merchant ships and three warships within the Australia Station , resulting in the deaths of over 1,751 Allied military ...
Jakarta to Fremantle, Western Australia: SR Kolkata to Yangon: 1941 1942 SU Suez Canal to Australia 1940 1941 SW Suez Canal to Kilindini Harbour or Durban: 1940 1941 US Australia to Suez Canal: WO India to Australia troopships WS British Isles to Suez Canal and Mumbai: troopships; WS convoys on at least one occasion [WS30, 1943] routed via ...
Down under and backwards in time. The HMAS Sydney and the Nazi Vessel Kormoran. World War II combatants, now remnants of military and human history. Enemy cruisers engaged in battle with one ...
Australia entered World War II on 3 September 1939, following the government's acceptance of the United Kingdom's declaration of war on Nazi Germany. Australia later entered into a state of war with other members of the Axis powers, including the Kingdom of Italy on 11 June 1940, [1] and the Empire of Japan on 9 December 1941. [2]
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
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 ...
The head of Australia‘s national intelligence agency said it was troubling to see an “emerging axis” of countries supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine emerge as allies of the Kremlin mounted ...