The American Great White Fleet arrives in Australia
The American Great White Fleet arrives in Australia - Uncle Sam meeting a Kangaroo. On 20 August 1908 well over half a million Sydneysiders turned out to watch the arrival of the Fleet. President Roosevelt had initiated the deployment of the US Atlantic Fleet to the Pacific - the first such movement of great battleships - to test his Navy's professionalism, arouse popular interest in and enthusiasm for the navy, and demonstrate that the United States had arrived as a world power
Picture No
12152450
Media ID
45721214
Size
3296px x 5269px
(8.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Postcard published by W.T. Pater of Melbourne, Australia
Date
1908
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