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HMS Exeter sinking south of Borneo, Dutch East Indies, 1 Mar 1942, photo 2 of 2

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Caption     HMS Exeter sinking south of Borneo, Dutch East Indies, 1 Mar 1942, photo 2 of 2 ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Java Sea, Dutch East Indies
Date 1 Mar 1942
Photographer    Unknown
 
Source Information
Source    ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives
Identification Code   80-G-71199
 
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More on...   
Dutch East Indies Campaign, Java   Main article  Photos  Maps  
Exeter   Main article  Photos  
Photos in Series See all 2 photos in this series
Photos on Same Day 1 Mar 1942
Colorized By WW2DB     Colorized with Adobe Photoshop
 
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Added By C. Peter Chen
Photo Size 800 x 461 pixels



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1. Anonymous says:
13 Feb 2013 03:53:12 AM

Thank you for your efforts to help us remember brave men. I developed and distrubuted the HMAS Sydney 11 with Navis for relesase on her finding. Expensive exercise but many relatives of crew were so happy. Keep up good work
2. Tripcony says:
8 Aug 2015 07:58:56 AM

My father was already in the water there by this time but spent his last moments at his post sending out morse code as a signalman he jumped off the bridge at the very last when it was time to go, aged 19 spent 36hrs in the water before being picked up by japanese nevy 3.5yrs as a POW 3yrs in Japan

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