The Guns of Java
Has anyone noticed the Japanese gun batteries waiting for you in the various straits around Java? You can't see them,, but they are there and waiting to punch holes in your boat.
I was talking to a sub vet today and he said when he was on the USS Loggerhead a Japanese shore battery got off three shots on them in Lombok Strait before they submerged. Some admiral orderd them to pass through the strait on the surface in the middle of the day - 16 July, 1945. He said one of the shots was close enough that it rang the hull like a bell when it hit the water. Later on they found out that they were 6" guns firing at the boat.
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