• Title
  [Naval operations]
• Creator
  Australia. Dept. of Information
  United States. Office of War Information
• Call number
  PXA 644/355-376
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1942-1945
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  73953
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 22 silver gelatin photoprints
  
• Scope and Content
  355. H.M.A.S. `Hobart'
  356. Destroyer H.M.A.S. Vampire
  357. H.M.A.S. `Shropshire' arrives at an Australian port - the Governor General is welcomed on board by Capt. J. Collins
  358. H.M.A.S. Shropshire at sea ... J.A. Collins inspecting hands at Divisions
  359. Looking down on the bow of the H.M.A.S. `Burdekin' showing the officers on watch ...
  360. Forward 8" turrets of H.M.A.S. `Australia' searching for enemy ... Captain E.V. Deschaineux D.S.C. is seen on the bridge
  361. Skilled workmen from an Australian Naval dockyard leaving H.M.A.S. `Australia' ...
  362. Cooling the barrel of a Rolls Royce 2-pounder gun on an Australian Fairmile ... New Guinea ... Wielding the bucket is Ord. Seaman R.K. Perry of Roseville, Sydney, N.S.W.
  363. On board H.M.A.S. Norman ... Able Seamen scrub down the torpedo tubes
  364. Australia's destroyers series - willing hands form along the deck to pick up and haul aboard the huge pipe ...
  365. L.C.A. (assault boats) manned by Royal Marines ...
  366. [PT boat camouflaged on manoeuvres]
  367. U.S. Commissions new Pacific base - Squadron of the PT boats at a pier
  368. New U.S. Navy combat team on attack mission - flight deck crewmen aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier ...
  369-372. New Guinea - U.S. amphibious troop carriers, known as `alligators' undergoing intensive training exercises somewhere in the Southwest Pacific
  373. Tanks as tugs
  374. An attack on an Italian merchant vessel ... a Blenheim bomber swoops on the ship (the `Florina' carrying a deckload of timber) ...
  375. [A landing craft (741) landing men on shore]
  376. [Portrait of Naval Officer]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1045374
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on reverse
• Name
  World War (1939-1945)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  aircraft-carriers
  alligators (amphibious military vehicles)
  artillery
  battleships
  boats
  camouflaged ships
  destroyers
  Governor-Generals
  landing craft
  naval exercises
  naval officers
  naval operations
  naval ships
  sailors
  torpedo tubes
  wars
  workers
  
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