Off topic here, buuuut…

^^ Good god that Nimrod is hideous!!! Seriously, thats an ugly plane… 😮

Also: Does the Su-34 have the ability to carry and launch Anti-Ship missiles?

You want ugly, i’ll give you ugly:D 😀 😀 😀

To say that the Japanese sub theorie is laughable is a bit strong, the fact is
nobody knows if a Japanese sub was working with the kormoran or not,
is it possible, yes, is it probable, no. but remember that the Japanese had already attacked and sunk the USS Panay on 12 Dec 1937 for no reason. so I don’t think they would think twice about having a go at an Ozzie ship.
It would be interesting to hear what the remaining survivors of the Kormoran
have to say.

Actually if you zoom that picture in you can see Diarmid Gavin and Charlie Dimmock posing for a picture alongside the BBC ‘Ground Force’ camera crew…

One thing i’ll put money on, is that it wasn’t done by a couple of locals
P!ssed up on Cider:D

According to accounts that I’ve subsequently read, the Kormoran managed to fire it’s own torpedoes before the Sydney could react, but were these commercial raiders fitted with what must have been a complicated device.
From sources that I’ve looked at, the captain of the Sydney was suspicious of this vessel, but didn’t train it’s main armament on it, very odd, so what was used to sink the Kormoran.
Your theory sounds quite pertinent, knowing the mind set of the Japanese at the time, they probably sank the Kormoran as well, in order to keep their mouths shut at the extent of their own brutality. On the other hand, wouldn’t the German survivors have said something about this at the time, or would they cover up for their ‘allies’.
Does anyone know whether one of the survivors, and at 318 of them it’s a good chance, are still alive, as I presume that they spent the war in an Australian prison camp for the duration, though I have a nagging feeling that there was some sort of breakout at an Ozzie POW camp and a few were killed, another hushed up story perhaps.
How many of these POW’s were allowed to live in Oz after the war, are any still there.

Iv’e also read that the Kormoran was so badly damaged that the crew
surrendered abandoned ship and started to make their way over to
Sydney in lifeboats, when a single torpedo struck Sydney and she drifted
away and was never seen again until now, it states that the kormoran was
not in state to fire the last torpedo and that i must have come from a sub.
By 24 Nov the Australian Naval Board was satisfied (although they had
no absolute proof) that a Japanese I-class sub had operated with Kormoran
a the time. The only one of the Sydney’s life rafts to be found was riddled with bullit holes, (how true that is, I don’t know)

A WW11 mystery solved at last, wonder if they will be able to find out what actualy sunk her.

Some intelligence reports said that she was sunk by a Japanese sub which then machine-gunned the survivors, which would explain why there were no
survivors from HMAS Sydney and yet about 318 out of the 390 crew of the
Kormoran were saved

Nose art? Not really.If it did not carry any while in service then it would not be historically correct to have some painted on her now?

Well if you think like that, then PA-474 didn’t carry any in service, but that doesn’t stop BBMF changing their nose art every few years, thank god they
don’t think like you or it would still have a Gnat’s wing bolted to it. so now we have HC as well as PC.:p 😀 😀 😀

Holy crap! 😮

No, you wouldn’t do it by crapping, you might do it by p!ssing:D

Quite possibly the inter-stellar equivalent of peeing in the snow during a trans-alpine bus journey ? :rolleyes:

One thing I can’t get me head round is the time it must take to do something like this, seeing as there’s not much darkness in the summer months:confused: