RSS Feed
October 29th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Posted
The Defence Department says the marine wreck found off the Papua New Guinea coast is likely to be a World War II Japanese submarine and not Australia’s first submarine.
Underwater vision shows the wreck 55 metres below the surface in Simpson Harbour, partially buried in the harbour floor but upright.
Defence says the images have quashed speculation the wreck may have been that of HMAS AE1, Australia’s first submarine, which was lost during World War I.
The AE1 was lost in waters east of Rabaul in September 1914.
The imagery obtained by HMAS Gascoyne – performing explosive ordnance disposal in the Pacific – was examined by Royal Australian Navy historical staff, who concluded the wreck was not AE1 but a Japanese submarine.
The Navy will work with Japanese authorities to assist in determining the wreck’s identity.
Rabaul, on the northern tip of the island of New Britain, was the site of fierce fighting during World War II and became Japan’s key naval base for the south-western Pacific from 1942.
Rabaul’s harbour, surrounded by active volcanoes, is popular with divers due to the easy access to war wrecks.
It was also the site of the first Australian action during World War I, when the town hosted a German radio base for the Pacific.
ABC/Reuters
Topics:
world-war-1,
world-war-2,
history,
navy,
defence-forces,
defence-and-national-security,
community-and-society,
papua-new-guinea,
japan,
australia
Views: 0
Posted in 
Tags: 
