Wading into battle
As a chill, grey dawn broke over the English Channel on June 6, 1944, about 300 Australian officers and men in Royal Navy ships and boats were able to take a breather from the last few days’ heaving, violent seas and squalling rain.

Getting wrecked in the west
There are quite a number of warships, which lie off the West Australian coast, victims of war, scuttling and accidents.


Technicians let there be light
A group of technicians has beaten the clock by helping a group of World War II searchlight operators in their plans to light the night sky on May 31 and commemorate the 1942 Japanese attack on Sydney Harbour, which claimed the lives of 21 sailors.

Coral Sea conflict recalled
The Battle of the Coral Sea had helped to form an “unshakeable bond” between Australia and the United States which has continued into the 21st century, the Mayor of Fremantle, Peter Tagliaferri, has told a commemoration gathering.

Garden Island lights up ...up and away
The Cruiser Wharf at Garden Island in Sydney became a helicopter launch pad with a difference a few days ago. Park Air 2, a Bolko helicopter operated by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service alighted on the wharf before carrying a restored 90-year-old lighthouse out to Fort Denison, the historic island fort in the centre of Sydney Harbour.

Dream home can become a nightmare-Personnel
An Australian Navy officer has seen the end of an era relating to how Britain surveys her waters.

Surveying the end of an era- Personnel
Navy Sea King pilot LEUT Simon Hook found “enough room to swing a cat” the other day. Simon and his crew had been asked by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to lift a 2.2 tonne Bobcat from the carpark at Palm Beach in Sydney’s north to a grass clearing beside the historic Barrenjoey Lighthouse 100 metres above the sand.

 

 

 

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