There's a wreck. There was no need to stage anything in respect of the Japanese attacks. We were at war with the Japanese as were the allied forces as Japan had aligned themselves with the Nazi's and Italy. In fact, even as this Japanese submarine was sunk, my 6 year old father was living in Japanese-occupied Malaya under the brutal rule of the Japanese who had battled their way down the Malayan Peninsula to Singapore. I've written about this before.

The Japanese bombed Darwin for almost two years. In fact, the initial attack in February 1942 saw more bombs dropped on Darwin than they dropped when they attacked Pearl Harbour 10 weeks earlier. There's no denying the attacks, or the fact Japanese submarines were torpedoing allied shipping. The secrecy revolves around a completely different aspect which I will get into in later posts.

The Japanese waged a brutal sort of war. A good idea about how they waged war will come from reading about the Nanking Massacre which you can read about here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

Here's an excerpt:

"The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing, alternately written as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War."

"The massacre occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000 and perpetrated widespread rape and looting."

It's interesting that today many Japanese people do not know about all of this stuff. I guess because they lost the war and didn't want to teach the history to their people.

My sister in law is Japanese, (full Japanese) and I love her dearly...She has no idea of all of this history as it is simply not spoken of...Still, that it happened is undeniable. She is learning about it now though, to her credit.

I find history fascinating and have dedicated 40 years of my almost 50 absorbing and researching what I can. I find it fascinating and interesting to see the past. History is far more interesting than the present in my opinion.

I hope you manage to catch the post I make about the secrecy around that submarine.

Thanks for commenting.

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