<p>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.</p>

Secret Fleets: Fremantle's World War II Submarine Base (16pt Large Print Edition)

History

Cairns, Lynne

Military

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Fremantle's secret fleets: Allied submarines based in Western Australia during World War II (Maritime history series)

Australia & Oceania

Western Australian Maritime Museum

Secret Fleets: Fremantle's World War II Submarine Base

<p>Here is the third volume in the Unfinished Voyages series. From 1881 Australia changed from a struggling colony to one with a thriving economy fueled by pastoral growth in the North, the pearling industry, and the discovery of gold. These developments affected the volume and direction of shipping, and the number of tragedies at sea increased dramatically.</p>

Unfinished Voyages: Western Australian Shipwrecks 1881-1900 (Unfinished Voyages Series)

Henderson, Graeme

Uwa Pub

Secret Fleets

Western Australian Museum / Aust Assoc for Maritim

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