Showing posts with label Rabaul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rabaul. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

World War II Submarine Found

From the Oct. 28th ABC News-World "Navy investigating possible World War II submarine."

The Australian and New Zealand navies are working in a joint Render Safe operation to rid the southwest Pacific of unexploded World War II ordnance. In Simpson Harbor in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, contact was made with a twenty meter long solid man-made object. The Australian Navy thinks it might be a World War submarine (if it is, it would likely be mini-sub like the ones that attacked Pearl Harbor).

The New Zealand Navy is not sure.

I looked up Simpson Harbor in Wikipedia and found out the harbor is a huge flooded caldera on an ancient volcano. Rabaul, the capital of New Britain, is on its shore. The Japanese had a huge naval base here during World War II and it often came under attack by the Allies. Sixty-five Japanese ships were sunk here.

Wonder Whose Sub It Is? --Cooter