Derek Law Bibliography

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THOMSON, Max. 8th Div Home From Changi 1945 (H.M.A.S. Hawkesbury). Addendum: USS Mount Hood Explodes 1944. (Naval Historical Society of Australia, Monograph 11). 13p., illus. Garden Island, NSW: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1989.

The text of two lectures given to the Victoria Chapter of the Society in 1988 and 1989. The first records the movements of Hawkesmoor in the dying days of the war and her trip to Singapore to return Australian POWs. The second deals with a catastrophic incident in Manus harbour in November 1944. There are several pages of poorly reproduced photographs.

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Prisoners of War; Frigates, Cutters and Sloops; Royal Australian Navy; Royal Australian Navy: Destroyers, Frigates and Sloops;

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