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OCEAN ISLAND. 1941-07. BOATS FOR FUELLING AND WATERING THE ARMED MERCHANT CRUISER HMAS WESTRALIA FROM NORWEGIAN MERCHANT VESSEL VITO, SEEN IN THE BACKGROUND. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

OCEAN ISLAND. 1940. THE ARMED MERCHANT CRUISER HMAS MANOORA AT HOME BAY. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

NAURU, PACIFIC ISLANDS. C.1943-02. EVACUATION OF CIVILIANS FROM NAURU AND OCEAN ISLAND. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

OCEAN ISLAND. C.1940. THE ARMED MERCHANT CRUISER HMAS MANOORA (LEFT) AT HOME BAY WITH THE NORWEGIAN MERCHANT VESSEL VITO LOADING PHOSPHATE. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

NAURU, PACIFIC ISLANDS. 1941-07. MILITARY PERSONNEL DISEMBARKING FROM HMAS WESTRALIA. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

NAURU, PACIFIC ISLANDS. 1942-02. CIVILIANS EVACUATED FROM NAURU AND OCEAN ISLAND BY THE FREE FRENCH DESTROYER LE TRIOMPHANT APPROACH THE SHIP IN BOATS. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

NAURU, PACIFIC ISLANDS. 1942-02. CIVILIANS EVACUATED FROM NAURU AND OCEAN ISLAND BY THE FREE FRENCH DESTROYER LE TRIOMPHANT IN BOATS ALONGSIDE THE SHIP. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

GUAM. 1945-06-07. FLEET ADMIRAL CHESTER W. NIMITZ USN, COMMANDER IN CHIEF, US PACIFIC FLEET AND PACIFIC OCEAN AREAS, SIGNING AN AUTOGRAPH. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

GUAM. C.1945. A JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR WAITS FOR INTERROGATION BY INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS. HE IS CLOSELY GUARDED BY A US MARINE ARMED WITH AN M1 CARBINE. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

GUAM. 1945-05. THE DESTROYER MINELAYER USS LINDSEY IN DRY DOCK SHOWING THE HEAVY DAMAGE INCURRED WHEN HER BOW BACK TO NO 1 GUN MOUNTING WAS BLOWN OFF AFTER SHE WAS HIT BY TWO KAMIKAZE AIRCRAFT NEAR ..

GUAM. 1945-05. THE DESTROYER MINELAYER USS LINDSEY IN DRY DOCK SHOWING THE HEAVY DAMAGE INCURRED WHEN HER BOW BACK TO NO 1 GUN MOUNTING WAS BLOWN OFF AFTER SHE WAS HIT BY TWO KAMIKAZE AIRCRAFT NEAR ..

Nauru Island, South Pacific. 1945-09-16. The Royal Australian Navy frigate Diamantina which lead the occupying convoy to Nauru Island and provided the platform on which the Japanese surrender ..