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16-03-2008, 10:36 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | HMAS Sydney found!!!! This is very exciting. At last the families know where their fathers, sons, brother and uncles rest. At last... Wreck of HMAS Sydney found | NEWS.com.au THE wreckage of HMAS Sydney, sunk off the West Australian coast during World War II, has been found, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced today. The Sydney's entire crew of 645 went down with the ship in the Indian Ocean and its location has been a mystery for 66 years. The wreckage of a German ship - the merchant raider Kormoran - believed to have sunk the Australian warship was found at the weekend in waters about 800 kilometres north of Perth. It's believed both sites will be protected as war graves. More to follow shortly
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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16-03-2008, 10:52 PM
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You're Top Poster: #13 | Good news, Andy. I hope this find now gives comfort to the relations of the 645 who were lost. I do hope that both wreck sites will be respected as war graves. Regards Hugh
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16-03-2008, 10:54 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | That's the plan, Hugh. Everyone is now looking forward to first pictures of the wreck. If she's as deep as Kormoran, there's the chance of submersibles going down and filming a la Titanic. Now she's found, I imagine some more money to do a comprehensive survey wil be forthcoming. All the naysayers and consipracy theorists have been proved wrong as well.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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16-03-2008, 11:31 PM
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__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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17-03-2008, 01:30 AM
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__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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17-03-2008, 03:28 AM
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__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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17-03-2008, 05:42 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Well spotted, John. Looks like they were civilians. Learnt something new today, thanks, mate! The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: 7. The Casualties
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