The Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Bataan (I91) anchored off Manila, Philippines, circa in August 1945. She wears the British Pacific Fleet pennant number “D09”. Note her American SC radar fit on the foremast, different from most RN Tribals of the time which usually carried a British Type 268 Cheese antenna” set. Photo by Pte. M.V. Gulliver, AWM 125083.
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