A striking memorial dedicated to commemorating the lives lost on HMAS Perth I officially opens ... served during the early years of the World War II but was sunk along with the USS Houston at ...

Neil Baston's father Keith, then a young merino sheep farmer at Quobba Station almost 1,000 kilometres north of Perth, had heard Hudson search planes roaring overhead, as World War II raged on.

Picture: NewsWire/Pool/ Colin Murty US Navy Commander Jeffrey Cornielle said HMAS Stirling was the port visit every sailor dreamt of and they were enjoying the liberty of Perth and Fremantle.