On This Day - 06 May 1944

CAPT H.A. Showers, RAN, assumed command of HMAS SHROPSHIRE, (cruiser). Mrs Ruby Boye, Australia’s only woman Coastwatcher, was appointed Honorary Third Officer, WRANS.

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