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War Memorial
Australia

RAN operations in the Pacific spanned a range of 'campaigns'; the others are listed below.

Malaya Singapore 1941

With the entry of Japan into the pacific War following the attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, RAN units based in Singapore found themslves in action early on, following the Japanese amphibious landings at Kota Baru on Malay's north east coast that took place concurrently with Pearl Harbour.

Things went from bad to worse very quickly, following the calamitous loss of the two Royal Navy Capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse to Japanese air attack off the east coast of Malaya on 10 December 1941.

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 "HMAS Sydney Nov 1941"

"Fall of Singapore"

"Battles of Java Sea and Sunda Strait"

"Coral Sea 1942",

"Savo Island 1942",

"Guadalcanal 1942",

"New Guinea 1942–44",