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spidge · 11-04-2007, 02:42 PM

From: SeaWaves Magazine

April 11th 1945

1945 - Sabang in the Indian Ocean is shelled by Admiral Walker's British Eastern Fleet. Battleships HMS Queen Elizabeth and FS Richelieu are part of this fleet
1945 - USS Missouri & Enterprise are damaged by Kamikaze attacks off Okinawa along with USS Kidd, Samuel S. Miles and an LCS(L). Bombs damage Essex & Hale. Strafing damages USS Black & Hank
1945 - USS Parche sinks an auxiliary minesweeper off Todogasaki, Japan
1945 - USS Spadefish sinks an auxiliary minesweeper off Tokckok-Kundo, Japan
1945 - RAF Liberator G.R. Mk VIs of No. 203 Squadron based at Kankesanturai, Ceylon, sink a submarine chaser and an auxiliary netlayer in the Andaman Sea in the Bay of Bengal
1945 - A mine sinks an auxiliary submarine chaser off Futaoi-Jima, Shimonoseki, Japan
1945 - Six crewmembers of frigate HMCS Strathadam killed after premature Hedgehog explosion
1945 - Frigate HMCS St Thomas departed Londonderry to refit Halifax NS
1945 - U-2368 commissioned
1945 - U-486 had to abort patrol when her Schnorchel failed

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spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,056	From: SeaWaves Magazine April 11th 1945 1945 - Sabang in the Indian Ocean is shelled by Admiral Walker's British Eastern Fleet. Battleships HMS Queen Elizabeth and FS Richelieu are part of this fleet 1945 - USS Missouri & Enterprise are damaged by Kamikaze attacks off Okinawa along with USS Kidd, Samuel S. Miles and an LCS(L). Bombs damage Essex & Hale. Strafing damages USS Black & Hank 1945 - USS Parche sinks an auxiliary minesweeper off Todogasaki, Japan 1945 - USS Spadefish sinks an auxiliary minesweeper off Tokckok-Kundo, Japan 1945 - RAF Liberator G.R. Mk VIs of No. 203 Squadron based at Kankesanturai, Ceylon, sink a submarine chaser and an auxiliary netlayer in the Andaman Sea in the Bay of Bengal 1945 - A mine sinks an auxiliary submarine chaser off Futaoi-Jima, Shimonoseki, Japan 1945 - Six crewmembers of frigate HMCS Strathadam killed after premature Hedgehog explosion 1945 - Frigate HMCS St Thomas departed Londonderry to refit Halifax NS 1945 - U-2368 commissioned 1945 - U-486 had to abort patrol when her Schnorchel failed __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm