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Reminiscences of midget submarine sighting in Sydney Harbour in April 1943 [PRG 1459/4/1/2] • Manuscript

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Reminiscences entitled 'Inexplicably forgotten: Another Japanese submarine attempt to enter Sydney Harbour in April 1943'. Includes copies of 'Daily Narrative' for 14 and 15 April 1943, obtained by the writer from John Perryman, Senior Naval Historical Officer, Royal Australian Navy Sea Power Centre, Canberra, which detail all shipping movements in and out of Sydney Harbour on those days, and the writer's record of his army service 1942-1945. PRG 1459/4/2 is an updated version, 2008.

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Manuscript
typed
0.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

1943, 2007, 2008

Photographer

Mackenzie, Doug

Collection

Part of Doug Mackenzie Collection

Subject

Midget submarines
World War, 1939-1945 -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Naval operations -- Submarines
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Naval operations -- Submarines
Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History, Naval

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Historical information

Doug Mackenzie enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942. From February to May 1943 he attended a course at the LHQ School of Radio Physics on South Head, Sydney. While there, on 14 April he observed what he believed was a small submarine nearby in Sydney Harbour which caused a disturbance in which depth charges were laid and involved a patrol boat of the Australian Navy. Despite an official report being logged in the Naval 'Daily Narrative' there was no mention made in the Sydney Press of the incident. In 2007 a 'Sixty Minutes' television episode recalled the May 1942 attempt by a Japanese midget submarine to enter Sydney Harbour, prompting the writer to make this declaration of his 1943 sighting of another submarine.

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15/03/2010

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