Download or read book Sydney Harbour s World War II Anti torpedo and Midget Submarine Boom Net written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Very Rude Awakening written by Peter Grose and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1942, the war seemed very far away to most Sydneysiders - until the night the three Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour and caused an unforgettable night of mayhem, high farce, chaos and courage. A ground-breaking new look at one of the most extraordinary stories of Australia at war. On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most glamorous city. The war seemed far away. Newspapers devoted more pages to horse racing than to Hitler. That Sunday night the party came to a shattering halt when three Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour, past eight electronic indicator loops, past six patrolling Royal Australian Navy ships, and past an anti-submarine net stretched across the inner harbour entrance. Their arrival triggered a night of mayhem, courage, chaos and high farce which left 27 sailors dead and a city bewildered. The war, it seemed, was no longer confined to distant desert and jungle. It was right here at Australia's front door. Written at the pace of a thriller and based on new first person accounts and previously unpublished official documents, A Very Rude Awakening is a ground-breaking and myth-busting look at one of the most extraordinary stories ever told of Australia at war.
Download or read book A Shot of History Attack on Sydney Harbour written by Doctor Tom Lewis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney Harbour was attacked by midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. An accommodation vessel of the Royal Australian Navy was torpedoed, and 21 sailors died. The midget submarines were hunted down, and two sunk. War had already come to northern Australia, and now the southern cities were made bitterly aware that the world-wide conflict had reached them. The midget submarine attack was only the beginning: gun strikes were made against land targets, and more enemy submarines came south, attacking freighters up and down the continent’s eastern coast. This new accounting of the night Sydney Harbour was attacked reveals new details of the fight that ensued and sets some of the previous historical accounts right. The text is supported by numerous photos as well as extensive plans of the midget submarines, and details of the curious stories following the war, including the discovery of the third midget submarine, sunk off the New South Wales coast.
Download or read book The Royal Navy in World War II written by Derek G. Law and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Navy in World War II is a comprehensive annotated bibliography of all monographs describing the role of British, Dominion, and minor allied forces in the naval war against the Axis. This second edition contains 1,400 more entries than its predecessor and although mainly concerned with the Royal Navy, it does offer extensive coverage on the Dominion Navies of Australia, Canada, India, and South Africa as well as the minor allied navies of the occupied European countries. Coverage of the US Navy's involvement in the Atlantic and Caribbean Theaters is also included. A wonderful reference for historians, librarians, and navy buffs.
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Download or read book Down 700 Metres written by Allan a Murray and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Book seven in Allan A. Murray's Series, 'Short Military Stories'.The SS Iron Crown was the second merchant vessel sunk by Japanese submarines off the south-east coast of Australia in World War II; she was sunk on 4 June 1942.The loss of 38 men was, at the time, the greatest loss of Australian merchant seamen in the War. Her sinking confirmed the belief amongst the merchant seamen that the laden vessels on the 'black and tan run' between Whyalla and Newcastle were 'death ships', deliberately targeted by the Japanese; she sank in 60 seconds. After some early conjecture, it is now the consensus view that the Japanese submarine I-27 sank the SS Iron Crown having deployed to a position off Gabo Island following the attack upon Sydney Harbour; I-27 was one of three 'mother ships' that launched midget submarines into the Harbour during the Battle for Australia.The sinking off Gabo Island was more than just a single torpedo striking a vessel in the dead of night as the submarine slipped away. It was a daylight attack that developed into a minor engagement between the Japanese submarine, an Australian Hudson bomber and another merchant vessel firing its 4-inch gun.For 77 years, the story of the SS Iron Crown ended there, her final resting place a mystery. Then, in 2019 Australian researchers found her wreck on the sea floor - down 700 metres - finally bringing closure for the relatives and family of those who were lost at sea.
Download or read book Australian National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Night of Confusion written by Ray Hayward and published by . This book was released on 2002* with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although this book is about the Japanese attack by midget submarines on Sydney Harbour on the night of 31st May/1st June 1942, I have introduced other information to show that this type of attack was not a one-off event. But that both the Allies and the enmy used similar weapons with much greater success"--Introduction.
Download or read book Midget Submarines of the Second World War written by Paul Kemp and published by Chatham Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author looks at why major navies engaged in the development of midget submarines during World War II.
Download or read book Japanese Submarine Raiders 1942 written by Steven L. Carruthers and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just over three months after the surprise air raid over Darwin in 1942, Australians were once again shaken when the Japanese launched a surprise midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour, the heart of Australia's premier city. It occurred at a time when Japan's Imperial Army was advancing on Port Moresby, and three weeks after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The Japanese greatly valued surprise. It had devastated Pearl Harbor and they expected similar unpreparedness when they launched their submarines into crowded Sydney Harbour, which then contained over 40 ships of war from all the Allies Navies fighting in the Pacific. This book presents new information about the Sydney Harbour attack, the shelling of Sydney and Newcastle a week later, and the large-scale submarine campaign to terrorise and destroy commercial shipping off the east coast of Australia. It also explores the role of censorship, which allowed the government of the day to cover up peculiarities in defence conduct, and even Australian casualties. It is now evident that military secrecy and government censorship was a major factor why few details about the attack emerged until many years after the war. Had their been an official investigation, it would have revealed serious flaws in the harbour defences, as well as the failure of some personnel; it also would have revealed the gallantry of many Australian defenders. Since the Sydney Harbour raid, the whereabouts of one midget submarine has become one of Australia's greatest mysteries. 'Japanese Submarine Raiders: A Maritime Mystery', explores the many theories to its location.
Download or read book Sydney 1942 written by Maximo Proctor and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late May and early June 1942, during World War II, submarines belonging to the Imperial Japanese Navy made a series of attacks on the cities of Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. These were the headlines: "May 31, 1942, Operation Midget Commenced" "Kuttabul Sunk in Sydney Harbour - 19 killed" "Harbour in Uproar of Depth Charges" "Sydney under Shell-fire" "Local Ship Torpedoed Off Coast" This book presents the graphic story behind the submarine attack on Sydney from both Australian and Japanese viewpoints. Twenty years after the end of World War II, I returned to Japan and met Takeo Yamashita at an official Australian reception in Osaka. I was a former prisoner of war of the Japanese in Singapore, Thailand, and Japan, and Takeo Yamashita was a former prisoner of war of the Australians in the Celebes. We talked and found we had a mutual agreement on the stupidity of war and a common desire for future friendship between Australia and Japan. Out of that discussion, the idea of this book was born.
Download or read book Australia in the War of 1939 1945 written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anti Submarine Warfare written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Acoustic signature, Advanced combat direction system, Aegis Combat System, Anti-submarine indicator loop, Anti-submarine net, Bathythermograph, Expendable bathythermograph, Geophysical MASINT, Hunter-killer Group, Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971, Lake Macquarie anti-submarine boom, Liberdade class underwater glider, Mid-Atlantic gap, Naval Tactical Data System, Net cutter (submarine), SACLANT ASW Research Centre, SIFOREX, Sofar bomb, SOFAR channel, Sonar 2076, Sonar 2087, Sonobuoy, SOSUS, SSDS, Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net, Thermocline, USNS Hayes (T-AGOR-16).
Download or read book To Sydney By Stealth written by Ambrose Annarumo and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late May and early June 1942, during World War II, submarines belonging to the Imperial Japanese Navy made a series of attacks on the cities of Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. These were the headlines: "May 31, 1942, Operation Midget Commenced" "Kuttabul Sunk in Sydney Harbour - 19 killed" "Harbour in Uproar of Depth Charges" "Sydney under Shell-fire" "Local Ship Torpedoed Off Coast" This book presents the graphic story behind the submarine attack on Sydney from both Australian and Japanese viewpoints. Twenty years after the end of World War II, I returned to Japan and met Takeo Yamashita at an official Australian reception in Osaka. I was a former prisoner of war of the Japanese in Singapore, Thailand, and Japan, and Takeo Yamashita was a former prisoner of war of the Australians in the Celebes. We talked and found we had a mutual agreement on the stupidity of war and a common desire for future friendship between Australia and Japan. Out of that discussion, the idea of this book was born.
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Download or read book Iron Men and Tin Fish written by Anthony Newpower and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the American entry into World War II until September 1943, U.S. submarines experienced an abnormally high number of torpedo failures. These failures resulted from three defects present in the primary torpedo of the day, the Mark XIV. These defects were a tendency to run deeper than the set depth, the frequent premature detonation of the Mark 6 magnetic influence exploder, and the failure of the contact exploder when hitting a target at the textbook ninety-degree angle. Ironically, despite using a completely independent design, the Germans experienced the same three defects. The Germans, however, fixed their defects in six months, while it took the Americans twenty-two months. Much of the delay on the American side resulted from the denial of senior leaders in the operational forces and in the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) that the torpedo itself was defective. Instead, they blamed crews for poor marksmanship or lack of training. In the end, however, the submarine force itself overcame the bureaucratic inertia and correctly identified and fixed the three problems on their own, proving once again the industry of the average American soldier or sailor. From the American entry into World War II until September 1943, U.S. submarines experienced an abnormally high number of torpedo failures. These failures resulted from three defects present in the primary torpedo of the day, the Mark XIV. These defects were a tendency to run deeper than the set depth, the frequent premature detonation of the magnetic influence exploder, and the failure of the contact exploder when hitting a target at the textbook 90-degree angle. Ironically, despite using a completely independent design, the Germans experienced the same three defects. The Germans, however, fixed their defects in six months, while it took the Americans 22 months. Much of the delay on the American side resulted from the denial of senior leaders in the operational forces and in the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) that the torpedo itself was defective. Instead, they blamed crews for poor marksmanship or lack of training. In the end, however, the submarine force itself overcame the bureaucratic inertia and correctly identified and fixed the three problems on their own, proving once again the industry of the average American soldier or sailor. Contrary to the interpretations of most submarine historians, this book concludes that BuOrd did not sit idly by while torpedoes failed on patrol after patrol. BuOrd acknowledged problems from early in the war, but their processes and their tunnel vision prevented them from realizing that the weapon sent to the fleet was grossly defective. One of World War II's forgotten heroes, Admiral Lockwood drove the process for finding and fixing the three major defects. This is first book that deals exclusively with the torpedo problem, building its case out of original research from the archives of the Bureau of Ordnance, the Chief of Naval Operations, Vice Admiral Lockwood's personal correspondence, and records from the British Admiralty at the National Archives of the United Kingdom. These sources are complemented by correspondence and interviews with men who actually participated in the events.
