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Old 03-05-2009, 10:43 PM
Badbru Badbru is offline
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Originally Posted by Targan
Except that Australia didn't operate Q-ships like that and I doubt we ever would. Cowardly tactics in my opinion.

Perhaps you might be interested to read up on "The Krait" then. Correct, it wasn't a Q-ship but it was used to disguise the deployment of commandos to Singapore harbour wherein they padled canoes to place limpet mines on the hulls of, mostly, merchant ships in Japanese occupied Singapore harbour.
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