[Gay State Conservative]

Just curious,naturalman...does Australia have anything that's the rough equivalent of our Arlington National Cemetery and,if so,how does one qualify for internment there?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Thank you for post and I looked up more info.



http://www.navy.gov.au/spc/history/archives/kormoran/kormoran.html

HMAS SYDNEY / KORMORAN DOCUMENTS
The following are images of original documents relating to the HMAS SYDNEY / KORMORAN engagement on 19 November 1941.

These documents were forwarded to Australia by the Admiralty in 1947 and subsequently returned to England. Their actual origin is not clear but they may have been sent to England from Australia during the Second World War.

[Strategerist]

For people not familiar with the Story Kormoran was a German merchant ship that had hidden weapons added - outwardly it appeared like a normal innocent neutral merchantman, but it was pretty heavily armed and also had torpedoes - it and other raiders were designed to raid Allied merchant shipping in out of the way places like the Indian Ocean where ships weren't in convoys.

Normally a cruiser (even a light cruiser like Sydney) would easily defeat it but apparently the Sydney was surprised at close range, got torpedoed, and they both sank each other.

[ozzymandus]

Thanks, very interesting.

[SunkenCiv]

I did not add this to the list. This is NOT a Gods, Graves, Glyphs topic, but may be of interest.