Anzac Day March - Corvettes Heroes is a photograph by Miroslava Jurcik which was uploaded on October 3rd, 2016.
Anzac Day March - Corvettes Heroes
Corvettes were to the Navy what jeeps were to the army and DC3s to the Air Force - they did everything, everywhere, and they did it with grit and... more
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Anzac Day March - Corvettes Heroes
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Miroslava Jurcik
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Photograph
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Corvettes were to the Navy what jeeps were to the army and DC3s to the Air Force - they did everything, everywhere, and they did it with grit and dash. They served in every theatre of war, from the Atlantic to Tokyo. They served along the Australian coast, around New Guinea, the Halmaheras, Borneo, Brunei and took part in the island-hopping right up to Okinawa and Tokyo Bay. They served in the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Two of them, HMA Ships Maryborough and Wollongong, served in every theatre of war except the Arctic.
They escorted convoys, sank submarines, shot at and sometimes shot down planes, swept mines, ferried troops, bombarded enemy shore guns, surveyed uncharted waters under the noses - and the guns - of the Japanese, towed damaged ships to safety and they even landed spies. The only thing they did not do was to stay long in harbour. They steamed a total of 11 million kilometres during the war, nearly all of it in dangerous waters, often behind enemy lines.
This picture was taken at beginning of Anzac day march in Sydney, Martin Place.
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October 3rd, 2016