Notes
1 Straczek, The Royal Australian Navy.
2 National Archives of Australia, Navy Files
3 Cairns Post 27 Apr. 1942 and 23 Aug. 1945
4 McDonell, Australian Salvors, 46-48.
5 E. R. (Bob) Hayles Records at James Cook University, Townsville, and personal conversation with Mr Hayles in 1977.
6 Morning Bulletin, 3 Nov. 1944.
7 Ibid., 8 Dec. 1944.
8 Cooper, Darwin Spitfires, 107.
9 Townsville Daily Bulletin, 3 Nov. 1945.
10 Ibid., 14 Feb. 1946.
11 Ibid., 6 Mar. 1946.
12 Ibid., 21 Jun. 1946.
13 Ibid., 10 Aug. 1946.