Tarawa (CVA 40) - Naval Cruise Book

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49 ,k,.3.-ggi... .Q -. .. 554- 'f':':IF' Q' and due to their proximity and similiar economic activity a friendly rivalry has grown up between them. Through the years a slight edge has gone to Sydney Cmore port tonnage and a slightly larger Iunb I Inl' populationl, but this has not affected their contest in the least. Intense business competition still rules the day, and when the citizens of Sydney The Coral Sea Day celebrations, which O' ' causedus to be unexpectantly diverted to Sydney ' ,. and Melbourne, were held to pay tribute to the lfffft 4 May to 9 May, T942 Allied victory in the . A D ' Coral Sea. This triumph checked the Japanese 41, T M ' f 'f--' flfdmgg advance on North Australia and marked the begin- - - ' ning of the Allied counter-offensive in the South fl tl Pacific. Another battle-although on much friendlier terms and of longer standing-is being waged, today, between our two ports of call, Sydney and Melbourne. Both municipalities developed during the same period, and Melbourne take the field in cricket or in the down under version of rugby a duel not unlike our annual Army-Navy game ensues. This whole relationship is furthur enlivened when the 'residents of Melbourne remind Sydney people the condition of the latters' founding. It seems that Sydney, originally, was set-up as a penalcolony to relieve overcrowded British X prisons. Suffice it to say, the denizens of Sydney are V, . not pleased when this heritage is recalled to mind. To this competition Syaney and Melbourne owe much of their importance today. By constantly trying to keep abreast of one another, they have not only succeeded in developing them- selves substantially, but Australia around them as well. -- -

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above This 250-ton-lift crone is the lorgest in the Southern hemispherere. During World Wor Il mony United Stotes worships utilized the repoir tocilities ot the Sydney ship yord. below Sheep on o hillside outside of Sydney