Ahoy - Mac's Web Log

Mac Gregory
19 June 2009

This site is dedicated to all "Who went down to the sea in ships" in World War 2, in whatever capacity they may have served the cause of freedom, but especially to the Eighty Four Officers and Men who died in H.M.A.S. Canberra at the Battle of Savo Island, on the 9th of August, 1942.  

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Here are my latest 12 articles.  See the article list, letters archive, or site map to see all of them or to get your bearings. Links to the main features are in the right hand column. If you can't find what you are looking for, try this search page. There is also a search link on each page. 

Anzac Day, Melbourne 2009 This year I was honoured by being invited to lead the Melbourne Anzac Day March. Read the article.

Eric Leon's amazing graphics of HMAS Canberra work in progress Read the article.

Letters from the Western Front in WW1: Private Leonard Frank Lamb AIF from France to his Mother and Sister My wife Denise has a few letters written by her Uncle, Private Leonard Frank Lamb AIF from France to his Mother and Sister. The importance of mail from home is mentioned often, I can attest from being at sea all of WW2, just how morale was improved with the arrival of mail from the home front, and how we longed to have news of our loved ones in Australia. Read the article.

The Mystery, the Enigma, that was General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Was he a great statesman and President? If you had posed that question to Charles de Gaulle, I have little doubt that his response would have been YES! I am a biased observer, much disenchanted by his performance at Dakar, and being placed in "Harm's Way" as a result, so I should not respond to my own question.  Read the article.

"At War in the Pacific" has been reviewed A review of Bruce Petty's book AT WAR IN THE PACIFIC, in which I wrote a chapter about the Battle of Savo Island, the only non American in the book invited to contribute. Read the article.

It is Sunday December 7th. 2008, and the 67th Anniversary of Japan's deadly attack on Pearl Harbor I had just arrived home in Melbourne on that very day of 1941, from almost 18 months involved in the Battle of the Atlantic, and now I knew that with the mighty United States as our fighting ally, we would prevail, and beat both Hitler and Japan. Read the article.

A Close Run Thing, Almost hit the last bump in a long road I awoke on the morning of Tuesday November 25th. with severe bruising on the back of both hands...That last road hump loomed up, but I was not yet ready to hit it, life is far too exciting, much remains to savour and achieve, I just was not ready to give up YET! Read the article.

Letter of thanks from an Athenia survivor, to the CO and crew of HMS Electra, one of the rescue destroyers  Read the article.

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A new site about the Bismarck and the effort to present crew members in
portraits and biographical sketches in German and English

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