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Captain Alexander Hughie Gordon LVO DFC RAN (Rtd) on observer duties 817 Squadron Sydney Carrier Air Group, Korea 1951-1952, interviewed by Colonel David Chinn MBE (Rtd)
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Maker: Australian War Memorial
Alexander Gordon talks about: his enlisting in the RAAF in 1942 and his training as an observer [navigator/bomb aimer]; being sent to Burma in 1944 and flying transport operations in Dakotas there; fl...S02778
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Captain Digby Charles Johns RAN (Rtd) on pilot duties 808 Squadron Sydney Carrier Air Group, Korea 1951-1952, interviewed by Colonel David Chinn MBE (Rtd)
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Maker: Australian War Memorial
Digby Johns talks about his service in the RAF during the last two years of the Second World War; joining the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and initial training; service aboard HMAS Bataan; return to th...S02690
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Commander Brian Gregory O'Connell RAN (Ret'd) as a lieutenant observer, 817 Squadron, Sydney Carrier Air Group, Korea 1951-1952, interviewed by Colonel David Chinn MBE (Rtd)
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Maker: Australian War Memorial
Brian O'Connell talks about: service in the Second World War, first in the Army and then as aircrew in the RAAF; his aircrew training through to being part of a Lancaster crew; being shot down on his ...S02801
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Commander Dean Robertson Murray RAN (Rtd) as a sub lieutenant of a landing craft flotilla, Operation Overlord, June 1944, interviewed by Simone Sharpe
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Maker: Murray, Dean Robertson Sharpe, Simone Australian War Memorial Preston, Lenny
Murray speaks of his early schooling; enlistment in the navy at 14 years of age; service prior to posting as an attachment to a Royal Navy unit; attendance at courses at various Royal Navy schools in ...S03242
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Commodore Allen Nelson Dollard DSC RAN (Rtd) as Commanding Officer HMAS Murchison, Korea 1951-1952, interviewed by Lieutenant Commander Tony Hughes RANR
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Maker: Dollard, Allen Nelson Hughes, Anthony John Australian War Memorial Brassell, Bill
Dollard speaks of his entering the Royal Australian Naval College at Jervis Bay in 1932; following graduation, his training in various ships as a midshipman; his sea-going experience as a junior offi...S02803
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Commodore Dacre Smith interviewed by Bill Bunbury about his service on HMAS Bataan during the Korean War, 1997.
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Maker: Smyth, Dacre Henry Deudraeth Bunbury, Bill
Collection of oral history interviews on the Korean War recorded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National 'Hindsight' for the program 'Korea 1950-1953, The Forgotten War'. A tr...S01917
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Commodore Norman Ernest Lee RAN (Ret'd) as a sub-lieutenant on pilot duties No 817 Squadron Sydney Carrier Air Group, Korea 1951-1952, interviewed by Ben Evans
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Maker: Preston, Lenny
Lee speaks of his service background and experience as well as training; joining No 817 Squadron 21 Carrier Air Group Nowra; his deployment to Korea with the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney; Sydney Carri...S02293
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Francis William Heazlewood as a Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic, HMAS Lismore, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-1945.
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Maker: Heazlewood, Francis William Stokes, Edward
Francis William Heazlewood as a Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic, HMAS Lismore, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-1945.S01031
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James Ernest Parsons as an aircraft armaments fitter Fleet Air Arm HMAS Sydney, Korea 1951-1952, interviewed by Colonel David Chinn MBE (Rtd)
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Maker: Australian War Memorial
Jim Parsons talks about his recruitment in Western Australian 1949; the trip to HMAS Flinders for basic training; ordnance training at HMAS Albatross, Nowra; his posting to No. 805 Squadron, then 20th...S02779
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John Glover Woolmer as a signaller in the Royal Australian Navy, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans 1915-1945
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Maker: Woolmer, John Glover
Woolmer speaks of his early childhood in England; emigration to Australia; enlistment in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) at age 15 years; signals training; First World War service in the Australian th...S03262
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Lieutenant Keith 'Gus' Murray DSC (Ret'd) as the lieutenant Commanding Officer HMAS Teal 16th Minesweeping Squadron, Borneo 1965, interviewed by Brad Manera
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Maker: Murray, Keith 'Gus' Manera, Brad Australian War Memorial Preston, Lenny
Lieutenant Keith 'Gus' Murray DSC (Ret'd) as the lieutenant Commanding Officer HMAS Teal 16th Minesweeping Squadron, Borneo 1965, interviewed by Brad Manera A transcript of this recording may be avai...S03356
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Ray Willmot as a radar plotter HMAS Sydney, Korea 1951-1952, interviewed by Lieutenant Commander Tony Hughes RANR
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Maker: Australian War Memorial
Ray Willmot talks about: joining the Royal Australian Navy (RAN ) in 1948 and his early training; his service prior to joining the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney, including HMAS Shoalhaven and HMAS Culg...S02780
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Rear Admiral William John Rourke AO RAN (Rtd) as Flight Deck Engineer HMAS Sydney, Korea 1951-1952, interviewed by Colonel David Chinn MBE (Rtd)
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Maker: Australian War Memorial
William Rourke talks about his training at the Royal Australian Naval College from the age of thirteen and his training as an engineering officer at the Royal Naval Engineering College; serving aboard...S02775
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Stephen George Joyce, member of 4 inch gun crew HMAS Murchison, Korea 1951-1952, interviewed by Lieutenant Commander Tony Hughes RANR
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Maker: Joyce, Stephen George Hughes, Anthony John Australian War Memorial Preston, Lenny
Stephen Joyce talks about: being posted to RAN frigate HMAS Murchison after finishing basic training; living conditions aboard the Murchison; training en route to Korean waters; other duties of an ord...S02795
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Vice Admiral Sir Richard Innes Peek KBE CB DSC RAN (Rtd) as Commanding Officer HMAS Tobruk, Korea 1951-1952, interviewed by Colonel David Chinn MBE (Rtd)
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Maker: Peek, Richard Innes Chinn, David Alexander Australian War Memorial Preston, Lenny
Sir Richard Peek talks about: serving aboard the HMS Revenge during the Second World War; his service in the RAN during and after the Second World War; the death of his wife in child birth and the Nav...S02797
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William James (Bill) Norbury as an able seaman, Asdic operator, HMAS Lismore, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-1945
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Maker: Norbury, William James (Bill) Stokes, Edward
William James (Bill) Norbury as an able seaman, Asdic operator, HMAS Lismore, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-1945S01016