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Matilda

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5. My father was in the Merchant Navy

Reply to Lasher (Reply #4)

Sun Jan 15, 2012, 07:59 PM

Jan 2012

and he told us decades ago that there were American submarine patrols off Darwin, and had been since the war, but the public were never told.

They're quite possibly still there. There's a lot we're not told.

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