Very cool stuff - thank you for posting this!!!
I second that. Thanks for posting.
Can’t wait to see the pictures.
This is undoubtedly going to reignite furious debate.
Ariel searches were undertaken but nothing was found. The fact that not a single lifeboat seemed to have got off, while most of the Germans were rescued over four days and even two boatloads made it to shore on their own, points to a massive magazine cookoff that killed the entire crew in one fell swoop.
Link to the other thread:
Wreck of HMAS Sydney found
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1986730/posts
Excellent reading. The comments in this thread are excellent too. I hope National Geographic does a documentary on this soon. Has the Indianapolis been found and explored?
Thanks for an exciting read.
Thank you for the ping to this thread from the earlier thread.
I hope that the film is found that the German buried in the cave onshore. The German pistol found might be a marker to indicate the section of the coast to locate the cave. It sounds like a cursory search was made in 1942. Perhaps the film was in small metal containers for 35 mm film that a metal detector could now find.
How amazing it would be for someone to locate that film—the images would help to fill in one of the war’s biggest mysteries.