You can see Ernie Ernie Plantz talking about his experiences on You Tube.
Four of the 5 Perch crew members who died at Mankassar Prison Camp are listed on the complete list of American deaths there.
All 600+ survivors of the HMS Exeter were taken there and then senior officers sent on to Japan.
Mankassar Prison Camp is now known as Ujunpandan Celebes (Sulawesi).
The first inmates of the camp were members of the KNIL, the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army after the fall of the Dutch East Indies to the Japanese.
Three of the USS Perch crew died of pellagra. Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease caused by a chronic lack of niacin. One result of it is skin lesions.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
Showing posts with label Dutch East Indies. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
The Dutch Navy in World War II-- Part 1
From good old Wikipedia.
And, as I said in the last post, I'd never heard of the Dutch as having a Navy during World War II.
The Dutch Navy was based in Allied countries after the fall of the Netherlands and headquartered in London.
Dutch ships escorted transports at Dunkirk and D-Day and escorted convoys. They suffered especially heavy loses in the Dutch East Indies and the Battle of Java Sea at the hands of the Japanese.
The dutch Navy in Asia was virtually annihilated during the Japanese campaign to take the Dutch East Indies in February and March 1942. Twenty ships were sunk, including the only two light cruisers. Some 2500 men were killed or wounded.
The HN. MS. that went with the submarine mentioned in the previous post stands for His/Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship.
A small force of Dutch submarines sank more Japanese ships during the first weeks of the war than the entire British and U.S. navies together. They sank so many, their commander Admiral Conrad Helfrich gained the nickname "Ship-a-Day Helfrich."
And, I Didn't Know. --GreGen
And, as I said in the last post, I'd never heard of the Dutch as having a Navy during World War II.
The Dutch Navy was based in Allied countries after the fall of the Netherlands and headquartered in London.
Dutch ships escorted transports at Dunkirk and D-Day and escorted convoys. They suffered especially heavy loses in the Dutch East Indies and the Battle of Java Sea at the hands of the Japanese.
The dutch Navy in Asia was virtually annihilated during the Japanese campaign to take the Dutch East Indies in February and March 1942. Twenty ships were sunk, including the only two light cruisers. Some 2500 men were killed or wounded.
The HN. MS. that went with the submarine mentioned in the previous post stands for His/Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship.
A small force of Dutch submarines sank more Japanese ships during the first weeks of the war than the entire British and U.S. navies together. They sank so many, their commander Admiral Conrad Helfrich gained the nickname "Ship-a-Day Helfrich."
And, I Didn't Know. --GreGen
Dutch World War II Submarine Found Off Borneo
From the October 26, 2011, Borneo Post. This was originally posted in the Cooter's History Thing blog on October 26, 2011, but I will reprint it here as next I intend to write about the Dutch Navy in World War II, something I had never heard of before.
Sport divers found the wreck of the Dutch World War II submarine HR.MS. KXVI off the northern coast of Borneo. It had been missing since 1941 with its 36 crew members. The divers had received a tip from local fishermen.
The 1,000 ton sub was part of an Allied fleet fighting the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies.
It had torpedoed the Japanese submarine hunter Sagiri on Christmas Eve 1941 and was sunk itself the next day by a Japanese submarine.
This brings to six the number of Dutch submarines sunk during World War II that have been found. This leaves just one submarine, the wreck of the HR.MS. O 13, still not accounted for somewhere in the North Sea.
And, i Never Knew They Had a Navy. --GreGen
Sport divers found the wreck of the Dutch World War II submarine HR.MS. KXVI off the northern coast of Borneo. It had been missing since 1941 with its 36 crew members. The divers had received a tip from local fishermen.
The 1,000 ton sub was part of an Allied fleet fighting the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies.
It had torpedoed the Japanese submarine hunter Sagiri on Christmas Eve 1941 and was sunk itself the next day by a Japanese submarine.
This brings to six the number of Dutch submarines sunk during World War II that have been found. This leaves just one submarine, the wreck of the HR.MS. O 13, still not accounted for somewhere in the North Sea.
And, i Never Knew They Had a Navy. --GreGen
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