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RE: Gun duels with shore establishments?
Posted by: adrian ()
Date: June 20, 2001 02:27AM

<HTML>Sean,
I can add to your Newcastle story with some other interesting facts.In 1942 (the exact dates escape me) the Japanese shelled Sydney,NSW,Australia as well. From what I gather 5 or 6 shells landed in the South Head/Rose Bay area of Sydney. Once again they did little damage and no casualties were incurred. I have also read of a Japanese recce aircraft flying over Sydney as well. I believe this was from the I 25 (dont quote me on that!). This sub also cruised the eastern seaboard doing aerial recce\'s of Melbourne and Hobart! Apparently everyone was quite surprised by it all and forgot to shoot at them!
As a sidelight U862 tried to sink a Greek cargo ship,the Ilisos, by gunnery near Kangaroo Island in Dec.1944. The greek ship returned fire from its gun and forced the UBoat to break off the contact. The story is told in \'U Boat far from Home\' by David Stevens.

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Gun duels with shore establishments? Sean 06/18/2001 11:20AM
RE: Gun duels with shore establishments? kurt 06/18/2001 04:02PM
RE: Gun duels with shore establishments? Rich Mickle 06/19/2001 11:26PM
RE: Gun duels with shore establishments? Tim 06/20/2001 01:35AM
RE: Gun duels with shore establishments? adrian 06/20/2001 02:27AM
RE: Gun duels with shore establishments? Vin 06/20/2001 08:48AM
RE: Gun duels with shore establishments? adrian 06/20/2001 09:21PM
RE: Gun duels with shore establishments? Vin 06/22/2001 07:44AM


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