Put Out into the Deep

By: Elaine Acworth
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  • In the midst of WWII, in mid-1942, Supreme Commander of the South West Pacific Area (SWPA) Gen. Douglas MacArthur moved his critical intelligence organisation, Central Bureau, from Melbourne to Brisbane - to a large Queenslander on Henry Street, Ascot. There, an inter-allied, ultra-secret interception and decryption team worked around the clock, deciphering and decoding, and understanding, the signals of enemy combatants throughout the Pacific. The local signals teams who intercepted these signals were stationed around the SWPA and at Camp Kalinga - they were signals operators who had sworn an oath under the Official Secrets Act (1939) never to reveal their work. The signals team began as only men - but then, by 1942, came to include young women in the Australian Women’s Army Service. This was secret stuff. It wasn’t until the 1980’s that some of these stories started to leak out. And even then, how did you explain to your grandchild that this was what you did.
    2022
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Episodes
  • Episode 4: The moon will bring me bounty

    Episode 4: The moon will bring me bounty
    Jun 19 2022

    The young submariner is determined to pursue an honourable outcome. Terrified that the Allied forces won’t be in time to intercept this enemy submarine, Claire and Enid enlist some unexpected (and nefarious) help and make for Moreton Bay.
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    31 mins
  • Episode 3: Like German tanks on goat tracks

    Episode 3: Like German tanks on goat tracks
    Jun 19 2022

    The girls of Barracks 6 close in on the submarine hiding in - or off Moreton Bay … there’s a mystery to its movements though and these young signallers become convinced of an imminent attack - though no-one else seems concerned.
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    28 mins
  • Episode 2: A bloody exciting couple of days

    Episode 2: A bloody exciting couple of days
    Jun 19 2022

    Claire is hot on the trail of both her Australian feller, and her ‘new boy’ submarine… and we learn the story of this young Japanese submariner - his famous brother and his grieving mother.
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    22 mins

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