General Discussions
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Re: RN Submarines in Trincomalee in WW2
Posted by:
DMP
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Date: March 30, 2013 07:30PM
Capt Duffy,
Is there any evidence you've come across that Allied agents were actually working on Java or Sumatra? I've read that the Japanese and Germans in Batavia were up in arms over potential spies when U-168 was sunk off the coast of Java in Oct 1944, just 24 hours out of port. I've done some reading on the topic of Allied radio transmitters in Java and there doesn't seem to be conclusive evidence that there were any.
Of course today we know that the Allies had become very good at intercepting and decoding German and Japanese radio transmissions--U-168 gave away its own course in advance of its departure.
A related question--did your group of POWs work with the "Romusha" in Sumatra or Java? Romusha, as you know I'm sure, was the Japanese name for Indonesian Natives who "volunteered" for hard labor during the Japanese occupation.
Thank you. Your stories and your postwar research are amazing.
-Dan P
Is there any evidence you've come across that Allied agents were actually working on Java or Sumatra? I've read that the Japanese and Germans in Batavia were up in arms over potential spies when U-168 was sunk off the coast of Java in Oct 1944, just 24 hours out of port. I've done some reading on the topic of Allied radio transmitters in Java and there doesn't seem to be conclusive evidence that there were any.
Of course today we know that the Allies had become very good at intercepting and decoding German and Japanese radio transmissions--U-168 gave away its own course in advance of its departure.
A related question--did your group of POWs work with the "Romusha" in Sumatra or Java? Romusha, as you know I'm sure, was the Japanese name for Indonesian Natives who "volunteered" for hard labor during the Japanese occupation.
Thank you. Your stories and your postwar research are amazing.
-Dan P
