Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!cbnews!military From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Dutch in WW2 Message-ID: <8885@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 9 Aug 89 03:57:53 GMT References: <8523@cbnews.ATT.COM> <8830@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies Lines: 28 Approved: military@att.att.com From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty) In article <8830@cbnews.ATT.COM>, Richard H. Miller writes: *From: "Richard H. Miller" *In article <8523@cbnews.ATT.COM>, cdf%naucse.UUCP@arizona.edu ("Ghost" Fischer) writes: *> The last two surviving ships were the U.S.S. Houston and the Australian *> Perth and were sunk trying to escape through Sunda Straight. *I don't have my references with me, but I do know that the Houston and Perth *were sunk in an attack on the Japanese invasion force in the Sundra Strait. quite right. the confusion probably arises because the fate of Huston and Perth were not known until after the end of the war, when the survivors were released from Japanese POW camps. before that, all that was known was that the two cruisers did not rendezvous with the destroyer that was waiting to try and escape with them, and as such most listings (such as the war loss section of Jane's) were decidedly vague about how they were lost. richard -- richard welty 518-387-6346, GE R&D, K1-5C39, Niskayuna, New York ..!crdgw1!lewis.crd.ge.com!welty welty@lewis.crd.ge.com ``Lucas -- a good day's work, and home before dark''