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26-03-2008, 04:57 AM
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You're Top Poster: #15   | Sinking of the USS Indianapolis 1945 Found this on a website by Mike Kemble on the sinking of the Idianapolis on July 30 1945. It is another example of cover up by a government. I Found it a good read. USS Indianapolis John  |
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26-03-2008, 05:12 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | A ship that definitely needs to be found. I believe a search for her was conducted several years ago but to no avail. I'll see if I can find it... Discovery Channel: News from The Search - Dispatch 10 Looks like the Discovery site doesn't host that news anymore... Ah ha, here's the site for the book I've got (scored from second hand book shop in good nick!): In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors, by Doug Stanton - looks like the search used the same company and equipment used to find HMAS Sydney and the Kormoran. Another job for David Mearns? In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors, by Doug Stanton - hmm, this book might have just picked itself to be read next! USS Indianapolis CA-35
__________________ 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. Last edited by Antipodean Andy; 26-03-2008 at 05:18 AM. |
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26-03-2008, 05:16 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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26-03-2008, 06:15 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | A lot of stuff ups by perhaps complacent land-based personnel leading to a lot of ar*e-covering, I suspect. Those to suffer, of course, were the crew. Definitely reading In Harm's Way next.
__________________ 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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26-03-2008, 08:30 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | It is amazing the lengths that governments will go to cover up mistakes and disasters. I hope they find the ship. I remember talking to one of the members in the Buffs club in Edinburgh and he told me that the RN destroyer that he was on, formed part of a RN rescue fleet to try and search for her.
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26-03-2008, 11:18 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | A scapegoat pure and simple!
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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26-03-2008, 11:02 PM
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You're Top Poster: #15 | All government use the cover up method to save face, but the one I hate is when they bury the stuff-up for 100 years in government secrets files. John PS Does anyone know who Mike Kemble is ??. It's a great website he has. Last edited by John; 26-03-2008 at 11:09 PM. |
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27-03-2008, 01:19 AM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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