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21-10-2007, 01:21 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Was HMAS Canberra a victim of friendly fire? http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chr...A-Canberra.htm August 7th Deployed on patrol off Talus with FMAS AUSTRALIA, USS CHICAGO and two destroyers of US Navy. 9th In action with Japanese cruisers CHOKAI, AOLOA, KAKO, KINUGASA and FURUTAKI south ofSavoIsland whilst in low state of readiness. Set on fire and received major damage after repeated hits by 5" shells and by four torpedoes. 84 of ship's company were killed. Sunk by USS ELLET in position 09.15s 159.04E. (Note: The circumstances and details of loss of this ship are the subject of a great deal of controversy. Two official enquiries were held by RAN and a post-war US Defence Department study also included this action. SHAME OF SAVO published in Australia contends that the ship was in fact sunk by a US Navy destroyer. There is substantial reason to judge that the sinking has not been explained fully.
__________________ 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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21-10-2007, 01:54 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Given the confusion of the night, nothing would surprise me. Would be interesting to know her heading, where the perceived threat was and where the other Allied ships were supposed to be...and what side she was hit by the fish on. Must do some more reading!
__________________ 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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