Secret fleets : Fremantle's World War II submarine base / Lynne Cairns.
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TextPublisher: [Sydney] : Read How You Want, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Large print editionDescription: 399 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781459666726 (pbk.)Subject(s): Navy-yards and naval stations -- Western Australia -- Fremantle -- History | World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Submarine | World War, 1939-1945 -- Western Australia -- Fremantle | Large type books | Fremantle (W.A.) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Large type books. DDC classification: 940.5451099411 Summary: Readhowyouwant 16 point large print. 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 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.
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Originally published: Welshpool DC, W.A. :Western Australian Museum, 2013.
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Readhowyouwant 16 point large print. 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 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.
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