Mid-August, the renewed Indomitable set sail from Sydney for the reoccupation of Hong Kong. VJ-Day was declared on 15th August 1945, but we were still fighting. The British Pacific Fleet was tasked ...
In his story “In the Main, Here and There”, Dugg Wakefield wrote about his ship HMS Phoebe and when describing its part in Operation Pedestal to relieve embattled Malta, he wrote, “Phoebe’s job was to ...