NOT "SUICIDE CRAFT"
MIDGET JAP. SUBMARINES
NEW LIGHT ON THEIR DESIGN
Japanese midget .submarines recent'y sun'k in Sydney Harbour Ave re not "suicide" craft, as at lirst thought.. Part of the elaborate machinery was designed so that the crew could return, and they had signalling apparatus to identify themselves after a successful operation. Though efforts had been made in constructing the submarines to give their crews a chance to save their lives, the chance was not more than 100 to one.i The midget submarines were a really good, job, if a very complicated one, and were effective engines of destruction when used with mother submarine. Rear-Admiral Muirhead-Goukl, in charge of naval establishments in Sydney, revealed this recently, in opening the public exhibition of the submarine and in a talk to the Legacy Club.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 13, 9 October 1942, Page 2
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133NOT "SUICIDE CRAFT" Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 13, 9 October 1942, Page 2
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