Life on the Line [Series 4, Episode 79] Bill Fitzgerald

Accession Number AWM2020.1032.37
Collection type Sound
Object type Podcast
Physical description digital audio file; wave
Maker Fitzgerald, William Terence
Hordern, Angus
Thistle Productions
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Warriewood
Date made 23 February 2020
Access Open
Conflict Period 1950-1959
Period 1970-1979
Period 1960-1969
Period 1980-1989
Period 1940-1949
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Description

Angus Hordern interviews legendary RAN Clearance Diver Bill Fitzgerald. Podcast released 16 June 2020.

Episode descriptions from www.lifeonthelinepodcast.com: Life on the Line tracks down Australian military veterans and records their stories. Today's conversation is with the first Australian Clearance Diving Chief, Bill Fitzgerald. Bill joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1946. He shared with Angus Hordern his stories of blowing up mines and massive ordnance, nuclear exposure, and fixing dams, submarines and ships, in his pioneering career in the navy.

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