This is the summary of the report into the loss of HMAS Sydney II, Australia's worst naval disaster. The full report (running to hundreds of pages) can be found at the link.
To: naturalman1975
2 posted on
08/12/2009 3:56:06 PM PDT by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: naturalman1975
4 posted on
08/12/2009 4:06:17 PM PDT by
DarthVader
(Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
To: naturalman1975
Interesting.
bumping for further reading.
5 posted on
08/12/2009 4:12:02 PM PDT by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: naturalman1975
Those German gunners really put some steel on target.
The old saying of the speed of the leader determines the speed of the team comes to mind. That the Sydney approached so close and once the fighting began the Germans fired three accurate salvos for each inaccurate salvo fired by the Sydney says something about the Sydney's captain and how he ran his ship.
6 posted on
08/13/2009 10:32:43 PM PDT by
fso301
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