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| 3022 | REID, Richard. No Cause for Alarm: Submarine Attacks on Sydney and Newcastle May-June 1942. 45p., illus. Canberra: Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002. ISBN: 1920720014.
A brief illustrated account to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the attacks. |
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| 3023 | WAINWRIGHT, J.F. The Ships' Badges of Simon's Town Dry Dock. vii, 112p., illus. Simon's Town: Naval Heritage Society, South Africa, 2001. ISBN: 0620282142.
An alphabetical listing of and guide to all the ships drydocked at the graving dock since the early 1900's, all of whom left their badges adorning the walls. Much information on the use of the dockyard in WW2. A limited edition of 500 copies. |
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| 3024 | WOOD, Lawson. The Bull and the Barriers: The Wrecks of Scapa Flow. 127p., bibliog., illus. Stroud: Tempus, 2000. ISBN: 0752417533.
Scapa is a wreck divers mecca and this describes the wrecks and their sinkings, including Royal Oak. |
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| 3025 | The Eastern Canadian Port: Now It Can Be Told. 48p., illus. [Halifax, N.S.]: Nova Scotia Light and Power Co. Ltd., [1946].
The port is Halifax and this pamphlet tells of the power company's war work, much of it related to shipping through degaussing or other electrical work. |
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| 3026 | ANTHONY, Michael. Port-of-Spain in a World at War 1939-1945 (The Making of Port-of-Spain, Volume 2). [xii], 299, iv p., illus., index. Port of Spain: Ministry of Sports, Culture and Youth Affairs, 1983.
Trinidad was one of the bases ceded to the Americans under Lend-Lease. This loving and detailed portrait of the island at war is largely reconstructed from newspaper archives. |
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| 3027 | BOWMAN, Phylis. Second World War Memories! 84p., illus. Port Edward, B.C.: author, [1987]. ISBN: 0969090188.
Prince Rupert lies on the West Coast of Canada near the mouth of the Skeena River. It grew in importance as a wartime base and this almost entirely photographic record vividly shows its changing role. |
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| 3028 | CHAMBERS, Robert W. Halifax in Wartime. 28p., illus. Halifax, N.S.: Halifax Herald, 1943.
A collection of the drawings of the inimitable artist of the Halifax Herald showing the different faces of a port at war. |
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| 3029 | GODET, Nan, & HARRIS, Edward. Pillars of the Bridge: The Establishment of the United States Bases on Bermuda during the Second World War. 30p., illus. Mangrove Bay: Bermuda Maritime Museum Association, 1991. ISBN: 0921560052.
A short, detailed account of the creation of the bases and their defences. |
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| 3030 | KIMBER, Stephen. Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War. [viii], 342p., bibliog., illus., index. Doubleday Canada, 2002. ISBN: 038525993X.
Based on eyewitness accounts, this wartime history describes Halifax at war and the build up to the infamous VE-Day riots of 1945. |
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| 3031 | LEWIS, Shannon M. ed. A Safe Haven: Sixty Years at the Crow's Nest. 100p., illus. St. John's: Crow's Nest Officers Club, 2002.
A revised and updated version of the fortieth anniversary publication. A whole series of anecdotes and memories celebrate the club where weary officers from the Atlantic battleground could relax between convoys. |
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| 3032 | METSON, Graham. An East Coast Port. . . : Halifax at War 1939–1945. 157p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: McGraw Hill Ryerson, 1981. ISBN: 0075484188.
A book of photographs, interviews, and anecdotes from Canada's major frontline port. |
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| 3033 | MILLIGAN, Sean Paul. Quonset Point Naval Air Station: Gem of the Atlantic. 2 Vols. Dover: Arcadia, 1996-98. ISBN: 0752402749 (Vol.1); 0738500372 (Vol. 2).
A collection of photographs covering the history of the base which was an important component of the Battle of the Atlantic. |
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| 3034 | MURPHY, Tony, & KENNEY, Paul. The War at Our Doorstep: St. John's during World War Two, an Album. 120p., illus. St. John's, Nfld.: H. Cuff, 1989. ISBN: 0921191480.
An atmospheric photographic recollection |
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| 3035 | RADDALL, Thomas H. Halifax, Warden of the North. xviii, 348p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1948; London: Dent, 1950. A straightforward, mainly social, history with 40 pages covering WWII. A revised edition was published by Doubleday in 1965 taking the story up to 1964 and there are various subsequent editions. |
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| 3036 | RICHARDSON, Evelyn M. B. . . was for Butter and Enemy Craft. [iv], 122p. Halifax, N.S.: Petheric, 1976. ISBN: 0919380220.
Her father kept the Bon Portage light in Nova Scotia and this is an account, based on her diary and memories, of the sea war as seen from the lighthouse. |
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| 3037 | ROMPKEY, Bill. St John's and the Battle of the Atlantic. xxi, 266p., bibliog., illus., index. St John's: Flanker Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781897317396.
A popular account of the wartime activity in this key convoy port. |
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| 3038 | SCHRODER, Walter K. Defenses of Narragansett Bay in World War II. xiii, 131p., bibliog., illus., index. Newport: Rhode Island Society, 1980. ISBN: 0917012224.
A full account of these deterrent defences with a detailed account of the sinking of U 853 on 6 May 1945. |
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| 3039 | STRANACK, Ian. The Andrew and the Onions: The Story of the Royal Navy in Bermuda, 1795–1975. 167p., bibliog., illus., index. Bermuda: Bermuda Maritime Museum Press, 1990. ISBN: 0921560036
Gives a very compressed version of events. |
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| 3040 | ANDREWS, Allen. Proud Fortress: The Fighting Story of Gibraltar. 220p., illus., index. London: Evans; New York: Dutton, 1958.
Thirty pages are devoted to Gibraltar's key role in WWII. |
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| 3041 | BENADY, Tito. The Royal Navy at Gibraltar. xvi, 271p., bibliog., illus., index. Grendon: Gibraltar Books, 1992. ISBN: 0948466286. A well known local historian gives an excellent detailed view of the long link between the RN and "The Rock". Has a full account of WW2 matters. A second edition was published in 1993. |
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