Article: Fed: Sydney loss enduring mystery of WWII


AAP General News (Australia)
08-14-2005
Fed: Sydney loss enduring mystery of WWII

By Max Blenkin, Defence Correspondent

CANBERRA, Aug 14 AAP - By rights, HMAS Sydney should have been able to sit back a couple
of miles and blast the World War II German mercantile raider Kormoran into a smoking wreck.

With her powerful six-inch guns, The Australian cruiser could outrange and outgun Kormoran
without even running the risk of having her paint scorched by return fire.

It should have been a very uneven fight. It wasn't.

In one of the enduring mysteries of World War II, Sydney sank with all 645 hands after
a close range gun battle off the West Australian coast on November 19, 1941. The ...

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