A4 Skyhawk
The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single seat subsonic carrier-capable attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and United States...
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RAN Helicopter Flight Vietnam
Experimental Military Unit The Experimental Military Unit (EMU) was a joint Australian-American company-sized helicopter assault force...
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Fleet Air Arm: 851 Squadron
851 Squadron was a Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron. The squadron operated across two periods between 1954 and 1984, mainly...
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Desmond (Des) Victor Harper, AM
Des joined the Naval Association of Australia in 1984 as a member of the Rooty Hill Sub-Section and on 13th February 1990 he transferred...
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Fleet Air Arm: 816 Squadron
Air Arm 816 Squadron is a squadron of the R.A.N. Fleet Air Arm that started life as a Royal Navy carrier based squadron in 1939 embarked...
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Fleet Air Arm: 808 Squadron
The 808 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier based squadron formed in July 1940. It served on a number of the Navy's...
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Colin Francis (Col: Irish) O'Flynn
Colin joined the Naval Association's Nepean Blue Mountains Sub-Section in 1978. Since then he has served as President, as a State...
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Fleet Air Arm - 805 Squadron
805 Squadron was a Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron, which had previously operated as 805 Naval Air Squadron of the Royal...
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Fleet Air Arm - 725 Squadron
725 Squadron is a naval aviation squadron of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Fleet Air Arm. The squadron was originally created in August...
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Fleet Air Arm - 724 Squadron
724 Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm and Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm flying squadron. The squadron was formed for the...
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HMAS Melbourne R21
HMAS Melbourne R21 was a Majestic-class light aircraft carrier of the Royal Australian Navy. Operating from 1955 until 1982, she was the...
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HMAS Sydney R17
HMAS Sydney R17 was laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS Terrible. She was one of six Majestic class light aircraft carriers laid down in...
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Fleet Air Arm - 723 Squadron
723 Squadron formed in Britain on 21 November 1944 and embarked for Australia the following month, arriving on 28 February 1945. It was...
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HMAS Vengeance R71
HMAS Vengeance(I) was one of a group of sixteen Light Fleet Carriers laid down in British Shipyards during 1942 and 1943. She was 695...
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HMAS Albatross (1928)
HMAS Albatross (later HMS Albatross) was a seaplane tender of the Royal Australian Navy, which was later transferred to the Royal Navy...
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HMAS Hobart DDG39
HMAS Hobart DDG 39, named after the city of Hobart, Tasmania, is the lead ship of the Hobart Class air warfare destroyers used by the...
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HMAS Hobart D39
HMAS Hobart D39 was a Perth class guided missile destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built in the United States of America to a...
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HMAS Torrens DE53
HMAS Torrens (DE 53) was a River Class destroyer escort of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Torrens entered service in 1971, and was...
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HMAS Swan DE50
HMAS Swan DE50 was laid down at HMA Naval Dockyard, Williamstown, Victoria, on 18 August 1965, and was the last River Class Destroyer...
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HMAS Perth D38
HMAS Perth (D 38) was the lead ship of the Perth Class guided missile destroyers operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built in...
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