TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cairns,Lynne
ED  - Western Australian Museum.
TI  - Secret fleets: Fremantle's World War II submarine base 
SN  - 9781920843526 (pbk.)
AV  - D780 .C34 1995
U1  - 940.5451099411 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Welshpool, W.A.
PB  - Western Australian Museum
KW  - Navy-yards and naval stations
KW  - Western Australia
KW  - Fremantle
KW  - History
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Naval operations
KW  - Submarine
KW  - Fremantle (W.A.)
N1  - Published with the assistance of the Australian Association for Maritime History; W.A. content; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. The development of the submarine -- 2. Australia's early submarines -- 3. World War II begins -- 4. Japan enters the war -- 5. Australia prepares for invasion -- 6. The US submarines come to Fremantle -- 7. 1942: Submarines on the offensive -- 8. 1943: The Fremantle submarines at war -- 9. Meanwhile, on the home front -- 10. A submariner's life -- 11. Early 1944: The Allies fight back -- 12. Late 1944: British submarines arrive -- 13. Clandestine operations -- 14. The war comes to an end -- 15. Remembering the submarine base -- 16. Submarines return to Western Australia; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page
N2  - During the war, Fremantle played host to over 170 Allied submarines, with submarines of the Unites States, British and Dutch navies making a total of 416 war patrols out of the port between March 1942 and August 1945.  The Fremantle Port was closed, and barbed wire and sentries appeared at various strategic points, transforming it, almost overnight, from a relatively quiet place to the largest submarine base in the Southern Hemisphere.  The secrecy surrounding the operation of the Fremantle submarine base meant that its existence was little known at the time and, until now, has been largely forgotten by history
ER  -