| thanks for the responses Kyt and spidge
My research has the 33rd Heavy AA battery arriving in milne bay on the MV Anshun. They had departed Townsville in convoy Q2 on Wednesday 2nd September arriving Giligili Plantation Saturday 5th September 1942. Q2 consisted of Anshun and S'Jacob escorted by HMAS Swan and HMAS Castlemaine. Q2 had left Townsville together with convey P2 comprising Sea Witch and Tarooma. On September 4 Q2 and P2 and escorts met up with HMAS Arunta. The two convoys split 180 miles south of Port Moresby, P2 and HMAS Castlemaine went to Port Moresby and Q2 and the other two escorts went on to Milne Bay. A Japanese submarine was sunk by HMAS castlemaine as it approached Port Moresby?
HMAS Anshun was sunk by and a Japanese cruiser Tenryu and destroyer Arashi that came to Milne Bay to bombard allied shipping and defenses. Following orders the escorts had left Milne Bay and returned the next morning. The S'Jacob was sunk when it left Milne Bay.
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thanks again
Adam |