The Australian Navy in WW2
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Australia declared war on Nazi Germany one hour after the United Kingdom's declaration of war on 3 September 1939. Unlike the arrangements with the British Admiralty at the start of the First World War, during World War II RAN ships remained under Australian command.
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My grandfather served in the RAN from 1919 to 1946. He went through WWII fighting in both the European and Pacific theatres on the light cruiser HMAS Hobart aka "The Lucky Ship" shown at 2:38. Pa told me that during the Coral Sea battle the captain would lie on his back on the upper deck with binoculars watching bombs being dropped from Japanese bombers and he'd give calls to the helmsman to dodge them as they fell. In 1943 they copped a Japanese torpedo killing 13 crew. Badly damaged but they limped back to Sydney. Pa told me they selected older guys (such as him, he was in his early '40's by then) to collect what was left of the bodies (ie body parts) because it was thought they could handle it psychologically better than the younger guys. He said it wasn't pretty. The ship's purser was one of the guys blown up so they couldn't open the ships safe (he had the only key to the safe around his neck). Apparently he was sitting on the gunwale smoking a pipe right where the torpedo hit. They had to fly a safe cracker to the ship via flying boat to open it.
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The Germans called the Austrailian Navy the Scrapiron Fleet not the Iron Scrap Fleet
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Scrap iron flotilla get it right
@@trevorlewis847going on spud runs to Tobruk
USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Yorktown (CV-5) were not Essex class carriers. They were the lead ships to the Lexington and Yorktown class carriers. The first Essex class carriers were not active until late 1943.
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@@HiddenHistoryYT Thank you. I found the video very informative, just slightly in error. USS Essex (CV-9) was the lead ship of the Essex class of 24 ships completed during or shortly after World War II and served in the United States Navy for over 30 years. Four of these ships; USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Hornet (CV-12), and USS Lexington (CV-16), survive as museum ships to this day. My father served on USS Intrepid during the Vietnam War from 1968-1971. OSCS(SW) USN RET'D 1978-2002
Brave country!
Lexington and Yorktown were at the battle of the coral sea. The Essex carriers were still being built.
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My cousin Ray Mort, a scientific instrument maker, died on "Centaur". The first his parents new of his deployment was the advice pf his death.
Our military has never been large, but it has always been well trained and equipped.
USS Yorktown was a Yorktown-class and the USS Lexington was a Lexington-class carrier
The scrap iron flotilla was made up of HMAS Stuart, Voyager, Vampire, Vendetta and Waterhen. All were recommissioned WW1 destroyers from the Royal Navy.
10:30 I somehow expected some basic knowledge about carrier classes here.
You haven't mentioned the Battle of Cape Spada, where HMAS SYDNEY sank the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni and severely damaged another, Banda Nere, the role of the RAN units in the Greek campaign. HMAS Kuttabul was lost in an attack in Sydney Harbour by three A-class Japanese midget submarines that entered the harbour. Two were destroyed, the third managed to get away but was lost a short distance along the coast. The shelling by the Japanese submarines did little damage. If blood is the price of Admiralty, then the RAN in WW1, WW2, Vietnam and in peace and war-related operations has paid the price in full. It is a service with a proud heritage and history and, today, stands as ready as then to engage the enemy and protect Australia and those in peril on or by the sea.
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@HiddenHistoryYT You too. I appreciate your efforts and hoped do add some more info. We could include Savo Island but will pass for now.
Wa re go and, by the way, the V and W's were the Scrap Iron Flottilla.
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brave country
Good video. A couple of corrections, the ships in North Africa were called the Scrap Iron Flotilla, not the Iron Scrap Flotilla. The USS Lexington and Yorktown were not Essex Class carriers. There was an Essex Class USS Yorktown, but this was a replacement of the vessel that fought at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
There was also an Essex class USS Lexington (CV-16) in 1943 to replace the original CV-2 Lexington that was lost at Coral Sea.
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Your videos keep getting better and better HIDDEN HISTORY.Reminds me of americans accumulating navy as the war progressed.😊😊😊
Greatly appreciate that Mark :)
I'll subscribe, like, comment more, share and hit the all notifications bell.... when you do a history of the Royal Canadian Navy from 1910-1946. It's a cool story! Retired Chief on deck 😎
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*Yorktown class
Beasts!
Thanks for the video. I must offer a couple of corrections though. Yarra (ship and river) is locally held to rhyme with cat and not car. Australia's Mediterranean ships were referred to as the Scrap Iron Flotilla, not Iron Scrap. And HMAS Kuttabul was torpedoed at anchor by a midget submarine launched from a large submarine, rather than being shelled as the commentary suggests. Cheers.
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We sank our flagship how stupid now we have 2 aircraft carrier with no aircraft new patrol boat with no weapons only 3 destroyers to defend Australia the navy in worst shape than before the ww2.
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Robert Cameron what on earth are you talking about 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
In 1938, Japan was already at war with China, not just 'rattling its saber'.
Aussie outclassed by the Japanese imperial navy...even the British royal navy ...look at what happened in Singapore ww2
Except, of course that the bulk of the Royal Navy, and most of the Australian Navy, was in the west, or the Mediterranean, at the time. Singapore was invaded from the land, by the way.
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This guy needs to keep his B-s to himself… no one cares about his opinions!!!
This is such an ill-informed video. Not even 2 minutes in and there’s been multiple factual errors. I’m out.
My cousin Ray Mort, a scientific instrument maker, died on "Centaur". The first his parents new of his deployment was the advice pf his death.