By Tom Frame
On 19 November 1941, the delight of the Australian military, the sunshine cruiser Sydney, fought a close-quarters conflict with the German armed raider HSK Kormoran off Carnarvon at the West Australian coast. either ships sank – and never one of many 645 males on board the Sydney survived.
Was Sydney’s captain to blame of negligence by means of permitting his send to manoeuvre inside of variety of Kormoran’s weapons? Did the Germans feign quit earlier than firing a torpedo on the Sydney as she ready to despatch a boarding social gathering?
This up-to-date version covers the hot discovery of the break – with the sunshine this sheds at the occasions of that day sixty seven years in the past, and the closure it has delivered to such a lot of grieving households.
‘Tom body has produced the main complete and compelling account of the lack of HMAS Sydney so far. His decisions are reasonable and his conclusions reasoned. when you basically learn one publication in this tragic occasion in Australian naval heritage, and need all of the evidence and theories awarded in a balanced approach, Tom Frame’s publication is for you’ - Vice Admiral Russ Shalders AO CSC RANR leader of army, 2005-08.
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