A Little America in Western Australia: The US Naval Communication Station at North West Cape and the Founding of Exmouth

by Anthony Barker and Michael Ondaatje

In 1963, the US Naval Communication Station at North West Cape in Western Australia became the first US defense facility to be established on Australian soil in peacetime. During America's Cold War struggle against communism, North West Cape's primary function was to communicate with the US fleet in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans, especially nuclear missile submarines - the Navy's most powerful deterrent force. Seen as a vital outpost of US...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742586856
• ISBN13: 9781742586854
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Uwap Scholarly
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.