Part 1 Mystery of HMAS Sydney

[hlimkb]

look like a surprise attack,

the aussie return fire but was too late,

what puzzling,not a single aussie in the cruiser live to tell the tale compare to the german ship

[carnex333]

@99Bessa It was the largest allied warship to be lost with all hands in ww2,that hasnt happened before or since. Within three months of HMAS Sydney's loss the Royal Australian Navy was almost wiped out by the Imperial Japanese navy.The mystery is how does a veteran cruiser get sunk by a commerce raider so you really dont understand Australian sensitivity do you you Portuguese pole smoker.And thanks for not defending your colonial possessions like Timor .WW2 Portugal goes Neutral. Left it to us.

[hlimkb]

@carnex333

The cruiser came too close,

the german merchant fired all their concealed weapons.

The aussie ship returned fire but it was too late,

but what is puzzling? no single aussie survivor to tell the tale and a lot of german pow.

[hlimkb]

@carnex333

The cruiser came too close,

the german merchant fired all their concealed weapons.

The aussie ship returned fire but it was too late,

but what is puzzling? no single aussie survivor to tell the tale and a lot of german pow.

[redcappra]

@ StorytellerMedia

They seem to take the 'baffle them with BS' approach - lots of material and not much inquiry. By the nature of events the main evidences is the accounts from the Germany survivors, especially the Kormoran's Captain. Fair enough, but the unchallenged acceptance of the Captain's evidence I find hard to believe.

The whole crew was well motivated to lie.

And they well probably well prepared and well versed, both before and after the events.

[them0th]

WTF!



[stefansmom]

thank you for posting this.. i came upon this by accident and shared watching it with my 7 yr old son. Being Canadian and from Halifax navy is in our blood. and we have a great respect for the navy here. God bless and rest in peace HMAS SydneyII

[colindominy]

If author John Samuels is to be believed .. The SYDNEY was criminally sunk by Jap sub I-58, (before 7th Dec 41) by 3 torpedoes, acting in concert with the KORMORAN, which severely damaged the SYDNEY with gunfire but did not sink her. The carley float / sailor washed up at Xmas Is. was from the SYDNEY. The RAN did a massive political cover-up. This argument by Samuels I find more than feasible - much more than the cover-story concocted by the RAN in its cover-up.

[fandango41]

vnck25

There wasn't any Burmese crew on board the Sydney.

And to call Australians who were at war and died fighting the abhorrant anti-semetic Nazi's racist is a disgrace.

[vnck25]

@fandango41

Aussies were just pussies of the Brits!How the fuck do you know that there were no Burmese crew? I personally know this for a fact you dumb goat of a Turk he he he !

[james8789]

only one man got out.....the uknown sailor

[1951barry]

god rest all of the sailors both australians/germans.

[StorytellerMedia]

The Australian Government enquiry in to the loss of the Sydney this month (Aug 2009) concluded that it happened as the Germans said, that the Sydney captain was at fault and came to close to the Kormoran.

[vnck25]

@StorytellerMedia

Hello could you kindly give the exact details about the report of the enquiry so that these dumb Aussie pussies on Youtube can shut up!

I can believe that these Aussies cannot admit that it was their crew's incompetance that lead to the sinking of the HMA(Pussie)S Sydney.

[vnck25]

This is bullshit, the Aussies didnt consider the colored sailors as humans they just added up all the whites and they were all dead, thus no survivors, but there were 5 men from Burma who were cooks in the galley all of them survived. This is bullshit Aussies are fuc ing racists!!!

[doofus02]

Get with the program. Everyone was racist back then. Everyone is still racist now, to a greater or lesser extent. Including you. There were no Burmese on the Sydney, and if there were and had they survived we would have known what happened to her.

There were no Japanese submarines, survivors were not gunned in the water. It was most likely a moment of laxness that ended over 700 lives.

[phuckislam]

@vnck25 and your a retarded spastic fuckwit.

[vnck25]

@phuckislam

come lick my big black fat ass!!!

[superhive]

Their luck ran out.

But not their courage..

Eternal Father, strong to savecare for them.

With respect, a Yank

[BB2433]

I have a bunch of respect for these guys. They sank the other ship even though they were damage badly. Rest in peace guys.

[geezer375]

Ive read the book on this by the captain of the kormoran.All i can say is its a bloody sneeky stunt they pulled and as far as im aware the captain never got his arse kicked after the war. There were strict rules about this type of thing.

[AVCG]

Iam disgraced by the flaming going on here the very least that you guys could do is make coomment that could better or points that differ i have been intrsted in the syney since i was a young teen and has always been in my attention but for ppl to flame ppl here is like pissing on your mothers grave so direcectful i cant believe u guys

[ASkywalker1]

This is Australia's greatest wartime naval mystery, as to why 645 men went down on the ship after the battle with the HSK Kormoran. The recent discovery of the wreck of the coast of Western Australia shows that some lifeboats weren't damaged in the battle and the theory is that the crew tried in vain to save the ship rather than abandon ship, but the ship sank very quickly. That may always remain a mystery as the captain, Captain Burnett, had little battle experience.Rest in peace HMAS Sydney!!

[madmal666]

Good video

[rhswlsc]

Nothing unusual happened. Aussies are always looking for their place in history and world affairs.

[xXAkridXx]

OOOhh ya, I forgot all about Aussies, they have their own little land mass don't they? That's right, that's right.

[rhswlsc]

Thats right.

[Aussieguy2402]

Rhsw;sc Your an idiot

[ASkywalker1]

If you want to insult an Australian, try saying it to our face, see how long you last. Bollocks indeed haha.

[ASkywalker1]

You bet your ass we do! We are very proud of it too!! We served proudly in every war we fought in and honour our fallen at Anzac Day, April 25 each year. Just so you know.

[rhswlsc]

Im not saying you guys didnt put in an effort and its good you commemorate your fallen. However i hear such bollocks about the English sacrificing the aussies at gallipoli and how you held up the western front at villers britona, complete uneducated bollocks.Even today you guys think your America's closest ally?Go to Europe, travel a bit, and see what ppl think of Aussies in world affairs and history. No disrespect intended towards the fallen Anzacs.But we tend to become slaves to the media.

[ASkywalker1]

which history books do you read? The Australians WERE used as cannon fodder for the British at Gallipoli and the French still remember our efforts in World War I and if you ever visit some of those towns you will see an Australian flag, that's how much they respected us.

On Anzac Day I wear the Anzac badge with pride and maybe someday you will understand what that word means, for your sake!

[rhswlsc]

"The world Crisis 1915-16" -W.S Churchill. Cannon fodder HAHAHAHAHAHA would you prefer the British put you in a nice comfortable resort. You've been watching that movie gallipoli havent you.lol Please tell me how you guys were used as fodder when FIVE times aas many Britsh died as you.One French town remmeber you guys no offence.Nothings wrong with that, but dont act like you made a difference to the direction of the war.

[Welrod2800]

god man, we know we're not america's best ally ( because our country actually is the living.)

and, im affraid to say, we were FED to the turks at gallipoli, u had very minimal numbers, while we had a good force out there, face it, we were fed, it was churchills fault not urs, so dont defend the inevitable.

ANd no, we havnt watched gallipoli, because we know it dusnt stick to the facts.

and rubbish about 5 times the british casualties at gallipoli! uve been usin wikipedia as a reference!!

[rhswlsc]

HAHAHAHA over 100,000 British died you muppet. When claiming i lied about that makes you look like you havent learnt a thing about the campaign. Only 20,000 anzacs died. Really now stop playing about and answer my question; HOW DID THE BRITISH USE YOU AS FODDER?

[Welrod2800]

okey doke,

Lets review gallipoli. Winston churchill had sketches of galliopoli about 2o years old, drawn by some brits in a boat.

Anzacs were first sent in. and did a damned good job of it. and were pinned down by Turkish fire. the brits then were sent in, and did little difference.

(and yes, i got it wrong in casualty part, my bad.)

[Welrod2800]

Like you lick the queen's boots and tested nukes in OUR country.

[rhswlsc]

It was your own government who said we could test our nuclear weapons there. Again answer my question on how the British are responsible for that? The elderly of your country backed the monarchy at the refferendum and the educated middle and upper class also. Its down un-educated people as yourself are, who hold a prejudice against the British with reason that makes no sense and carries no weight.

[Welrod2800]

pffft, uneducated???

A. I went to an acedemically selective school.

b. MY great uncle won a military cross in england defence.

and the Nukes were pressured by the british gov.

[rhswlsc]

Im sorry.My issue is that Britain is given a far too harder time from the Aussies, thats all. As i said BEFORE i have nothing against the fallen aussie soldiers, and i too have respect for them. Its the people who put the British down at every corner which dissapoints me. Ok so when you say pressured, you surely must mean they were pressured by the use of violence, sanctions or some other kind of force?

[Welrod2800]

and i do have respect for Britain...

their modern day government, ther soldiers pat and present...

and ther achievments.

[rhswlsc]

Have a good Anzac day.

[Welrod2800]

cheers mate.

[YamatoTitanic]

Rest in peace HMAS Sydney and Kormanran.

[duetodie]

yeah the ship that sunk hmas they had like paper ro soem think on it so they blow holes in ti and sunk it all 300 crew got otu on life boats to many tog et or soem think

[limpshrty]

do you speak english?

[limpshrty]

do you speak english?

[HarveyBirdmanTk421]

My god man! Please for the love of the internet take a typing course!

[HorrorMovieFan01]

there were knew pictures released in the Sunday herald sun!

[kolalajoe]

Have you guy's seen the ship that destroyed it though? It looked like nothing.

[ASkywalker1]

The HSK Kormoran was disguised as a Dutch freighter but was heavily armed with torpedoes, hidden gun turrets and carried mines. The fact that the Sydney approached too close to the Kormoran gave it the advantage in battle and the element of surprise as well. For more info, check out the HMAS Sydney websites, it's worth a look.

[Axelversteeg]

what alot of people don't seem to understand is that the dutch were allies of Australia, not neutrals

The Dutch had cruisers, destroyers, planes, submarines, freighter ships patrolling/supplying/helping the coast of Australia with the Royal Australian Navy

there is no way you'd fire at an allied freighter unless you were 100% sure that they were the enemy, however Sydneys approach was wrong

[ASkywalker1]

I agree, that's how they got so close to the Kormoran in the first place, then the Kormoran opened fire and virtually destroyed Sydney's bridge and most of it's weaponry, apart from two gun turrets. What the Sydney captain should of (or maybe he already was) aware that there were German raiders in the area off the WA coast and they were known to disguise themselves as foreign vessels.

[duetodie]

me to coz im aussie

[iRhysy34]

I really do wonder what happend