The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Newsreel item on the first boarding and capture of a naval vessel by the United States Navy since 1815. An anti-submarine Task Force Group consisting of the CVE (escort carrier) USS Guadalcanal and five destroyers located and subsequently captured German submarine U-505 on 4 June 1944 in the area of the Cape Verde Islands. The films shows the stages in the capture involving the carrier's Wildcat fighters and destroyer escorts depth charge and gun fire. Shows the boarding party in action, the attempted scuttling by the German crew and the successfull salvage party operation and Captain Daniel V Gallery, commander of USS Guadalcanal. Concludes with an aerial shot of U-505 under tow by the USS Guadalcanal. The capture of the submarine was kept a strict secret until the end of the war with Germany so as not to alert the Germans. If the Germans had known of the capture of a U-boat they would have changed their codes.
ATLANTIC. 1944-06-04. A US NAVY EASTERN AIRCRAFT TBM AVENGER BOMBER AIRCRAFT FROM THE ESCORT AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS GUADALCANAL (NOT IN THE PICTURE) FLIES OVERHEAD AS A BOARDING PARTY WORKS ON THE GERMA
A collection of South West Pacific Area (SWPA) news items from 1943 to 1944. Opens with titles SWPA news. 'First authentic film of US Navy's victory in the Philippines. Gallant death of the carrier Pr
1. SEATO Exercise Sea Devil. SEATO's twenty first maritime exercise. HMAS Queenborough, Voyager and Vendetta escort HMAS Melbourne on one of the longest anti-submarine and naval air defence exercises
Heavily painted carved wooden ship's figurehead depicting the head and bust of a woman in Scottish highland dress. The woman has long black flowing hair and wears a gold painted coronet bearing a blac
