AUSTRALIAN DESTROYER
There is not verv much "of 'Fleet Destrover,' by Petty Officer J. E. Macdonnell, R.A.N., but what there is provides exhilarating reading. Told with verve, the author's story is of a few months at sea in 1944 of the destroyer H.M.A.S. N—. Following an instructive insight into manoeuvres and practice bombardment, Petty Officer Macdonnell suddenly plunges the reader into the thrills of genuine a devastating bombardment, twice of Sabaug, in Sumatra, and once of Sourabaya, in Java. Little epics of other destroyers are told in the action of the Electra, which went down after gallant resistance to the Japanese off Java, and the evacuation of Australian guerrillas from Timor by the Arunta. There are vivid pen pictures of incidents on board the x— and of shore leave. The N—might have been seen by many Dunedin people, since she was the destroyer featured in the Noel Coward picture, 'ln Which We Serve.' 'Fleet Destrover,' which carries several good photographs, is published by the 800 - Depot, Melbourne.
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Evening Star, Issue 25577, 1 September 1945, Page 10
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167AUSTRALIAN DESTROYER Evening Star, Issue 25577, 1 September 1945, Page 10
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