Today marks the 75th anniversary since the American Seventh Fleet was created out of General Douglas MacArthur’s Brisbane headquarters in the old AMP building on Queen St during World War II.
Current commander of the Seventh Fleet, Vice admiral Philip Sawyers, laid a wreath yesterday on the New Farm Submarine Heritage Walk, the site of an Allied submarine base during World War II.
The Seventh Fleet operates out of the Pacific, and comprises up to 40,000 sailors and more than 60 ships and 300 airplanes.