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Photograph 306414 Second World War, 1939-1945INDIAN OCEAN. 1942-04-05. THE CRUISER HMS DORSETSHIRE, ABLAZE AND ON HER BEAM ENDS, SINKING AFTER A HEAVY JAPANESE BOMBING ATTACK. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION).

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COLOMBO, 1942-04-05. THE SINKING OF THE 'TENEDOS', A BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK BY THE JAPANESE.
INDIAN OCEAN. 1942-04-05. THE CRUISER HMS DORSETSHIRE, ABLAZE AND ON HER BEAM ENDS, SINKING AFTER A HEAVY JAPANESE BOMBING ATTACK. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION).

Java Sea. Bomb spray follows the British cruiser HMS Exeter, as Exeter and the Australian cruiser, HMAS Hobart, manoeuver during a Japanese air attack. A Dutch destroyer is at right. Exeter survived t

DARWIN, NT. 1942-02-19. THE TANKER BRITISH MOTORIST (LEFT) ON FIRE AND SINKING DURING THE JAPANESE AIR RAID. TO THE RIGHT THE DESTROYER USS PEARY SINKS BY THE STERN, HER FORWARD GUN STILL IN ACTION. (

Survivors of the sinking of the HMAS Armidale clinging to a liferaft. The Armidale was sunk by Japanese air action on 1 December 1942. 149 men were on board the Armidale at the time of the sinking, an

ON 1942-05-31, AUSTRALIA MADE ITS FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH JAPANESE SUBMARINES. THREE OF THEM SNEAKED INTO SYDNEY HARBOUR AND THEIR COMBINED EFFORTS RESULTED IN THE SINKING OF A SMALL HARBOUR VESSEL OF

Java Sea. 15 February 1942. Bomb spray obscures the British cruiser HMS Exeter, as Exeter and the Australian cruiser, HMAS Hobart, manoeuver during a Japanese air attack. Exeter survived this attack t
