Books and Essays by Bob Wurth on the Asia/Pacific Region. The Japanese midget submarine raid on Sydney harbour,MAY 1. Mother sub off Sydney in '4.

The best movie trailer site on the web! Thousands of clips from your favorite movies.

Easy Virtue Watch Online

Japanese officers waiting in a mother submarine off southern Sydney briefly cheered the midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbor in 1. In the book, 1. 94. Australia's greastest peril, Bob Wurth reveals for the first time the reaction of the officers who were waiting on the surface off Cronulla. Elated Japanese officers in the sub’s conning tower off Sydney saw a great explosion and quickly passed news back to Japan that the midget submariners had scored a big success on the night of May 3. In fact, the explosion was that of the old Sydney ferryboat HMAS Kuttabul, pictured below, used as accommodation for RAN seamen.

Divers later recovered 1. The incident during the midget submarine attack on May 3. Archives of Industrial Society at the University of Pittsburgh. The details were contained some of previously unpublished sections of the diaries of Admiral Matome Ugaki, who was chief of staff to the commander in chief, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Admiral Ugaki received the message aboard Yamamoto’s flagship, the super battleship Yamato, which at the time was heading towards the decisive Midway battle zone.  In his diary Ugaki pondered the fate of the six submariners:  Big water spout signals 'daring attack' “None of the midget sub crew who made a surprise attack on Sydney were recovered, and the mother sub suspended their search. “As one of our subs staying south- by- southeast of the harbor noticed at 2. Tokyo time] to the left of the harbor entrance light a big water spout almost three times as big as the light, which seconds later went down, it seems certain that our midget subs made a daring attack.”  But Admiral Ugaki added to his diary:  “On the other hand, the Australian defense headquarters announced that a torpedo hit a naval auxiliary vessel and another one exploded in her vicinity with a result that she was sunk … two sunken midget subs are possible to be salvaged, as their positions are ascertained.

1. Easy Virtue (2008) - A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing.
2. Offering Blu Rays, DVD's and games throughout Australia. Find reviews on new releases and games.
3. Visit Tatts online today for all of your Australian Lotto, Racing & Sports Betting information!
4. Welcome to Just Period Movies. Start streaming movies from Netflix Watch Instantly, Amazon Video on Demand, and others directly from the internet to your TV.

Searches are being made for another midget sub and their mother subs. “Although they claimed that our attack was unsuccessful, their shock received from our attack must have been tremendous.”  The Kuttabul was sunk by the midget sub M- 2. Lieutenant Katsuhisa Ban, 2. Petty Officer Mamoru Ashibe, 2. Their submarine was found off Long Reef, Sydney, in 2. Watch Bugsy Malone Online Flashx. It is thought that Ban and Ashibe never left their midget sub. On escaping through the Sydney Heads, Ban and Ashibe had turned north rather than south where their mother sub, the I- 2.

In the early hours of Monday morning, June 1, 1. I- 2. 4 was spotted by a Sydney trawler. Rear Admiral Gerard Muirhead- Gould in Sydney flashed a message to the Naval Board in Melbourne which should have been taken as the tip for major aerial searches close offshore from Sydney’s southern beaches: “TRAWLER SAN MICHELE REPORTS SIGHTING SUBMARINE 4. MILES OFF CRONULLA AT 0. Watch Hateship Loveship Online Full Movie. K/1 STEAMING SOUTH AT 2 TO 3 KNOTS.

SUBMARINE CLEARLY OBSERVED IN MOONLIGHT APPEARED TO BE ABOUT 2. FEET IN LENGTH…”  But Sydney’s defences were poor and the mother sub was not attacked. Ships sunk A few days after the midget attack on Sydney, the Japanese began an intense campaign to wreak as much destruction as possible on commercial shipping along the east coast of Australia. Some of the attacks were so close offshore, people living along the coast would see and hear the explosions.

The first attack came on the night of 3 June. The I- 2. 4, which had carried Ban and Ashibe and their midget submarine to Sydney, was now 3. Watch Damage Putlocker#. Sydney when an approaching ship was spotted. The big sub surfaced. At 1. 0. 1. 8 pm, using its deck gun, the submarine began to shell the coastal steamer the Age, of 4,7. Newcastle from Melbourne.

The Age sent out a distress message and immediately put on maximum speed. The Age managed to flee at top speed in heavy seas towards Newcastle, reaching the port the next morning without damage. But disaster quickly struck. Sydney Radio received a signal from the Australian bulk carrier Iron Chieftain, pictured below, owned by the BHP steelmaker, carrying coke and ship building material south to Whyalla in South Australia.

The ship had been torpedoed.  The Iron Chieftain sank quickly, killing 1. Captain L. Haddelsey, who was last seen standing on the bridge with another officer as the ship went down. Lifeboats containing 3. Lakes Entrance, north of Sydney.

Aerial searches were immediately carried out. Detail from the book 1.

Bob Wurth has never argued that the 1. Sydney raid was in any way associated with any suggested invasion of Australia. In 1. 94. 2, he describes the raid as "a side- show." The Sydney Harbour explosion record is not included in the edited version of Admiral Ugaki's diaries published as Fading Victory, University of Pittsburgh Press, edited by Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon.] Japanese eyewitness account: Newcastle gunners almost hit Japanese sub.

Weblin is the Shiznit! Get yours now. I have the chance of meeting people who share my interests by virtue of them being on the same. users can watch.

The gunners at Newcastle’s Fort Scratchley in 1. Japanese submarine that fired on the city than was ever thought, despite never actually seeing the sub.

In ‘1. 94. 2, Australia’s greatest peril’, an officer standing on the deck of the submarine, who is alive and active in Japan today, described for the first time how close the Australian six inch shells came to the big sub: [Picture: Pilot Susumu Ito in 2. In the darkness of Monday June 8, 1.

Lieutenant Susumu Ito, a zealous young flying officer, scrambled up into the dripping conning tower of the I- 2. Stockton Bight.  It was a week after the Japanese midget submarine raid on Sydney Harbour and less than two hours after another Japanese submarine began shelling suburbs around Sydney Harbour. The I- 2. 1 had carried Susumu Ito’s ‘Glen’ float plane from Japan to Sydney in a specially constructed hanger on the deck of the submarine. Ito had taken off from the mother sub before the midget submarine raid on Sydney and had conducted reconnaissance over the harbour without interception. But when he landed near the submarine in a rough sea, Ito’s aircraft flipped over and was badly damaged and had to be sunk by the submarine crew. Ito felt shamed and apologised to the sub’s captain submarine, Matsumura Kanji.

Ito, a strong swimmer, had almost drowned struggled in his jump suit loaded down with a pistol and many rounds of ammunition.