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Contrary to what many Australians believe, during 1942 Japanese submarines were active in Australian waters and Japanese spy planes made surveillance flights over our major cities. With enemy submarines patrolling off the Western Australian coast, Fremantle became an important international submarin...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cairns, Lynne
Autor Corporativo: Western Australian Museum
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fremantle, W.A. : Western Australian Museum, 2013.
Edición:Digital ed.
Temas:
1939-1945
Navy-yards and naval stations > Australia > Fremantle (W.A.) > History.
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations > Submarine.
World War, 1939-1945 > Australia > Fremantle (W.A.)
Bases navales > Australie > Fremantle (Austr.-Occ.) > Histoire.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Opérations sous-marines.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Australie > Fremantle (Austr.-Occ.)
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Military operations, Naval > Submarine
Navy-yards and naval stations
Fremantle (W.A.) > History.
Western Australia > Fremantle
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Contrary to what many Australians believe, during 1942 Japanese submarines were active in Australian waters and Japanese spy planes made surveillance flights over our major cities. With enemy submarines patrolling off the Western Australian coast, Fremantle became an important international submarine base, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. During the war Fremantle played host to over 170 Allied submarines, with submarines of the United States, British and Dutch navies making a total of 416 war patrols out of the port between March 1942 and August 1945. The secrecy surrounding the operati.
Descripción Física:1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781920843571
1920843574

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