Imagine losing ~2,300 Aussie lives today in an hour or so on an equivalent population basis. HMAS Sydney was lost 19Nov1941 due to not heeding centuries of hard won Royal Navy experience in dealing with suspicious and unidentified shipping.
SMH article Of lives and deaths, writ in water 19Nov2008. Wikipedia Battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran –
List of disasters in Australia by death toll
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I would say that for 17 months previously to the sinking of HMAS Sydney various disguised and armed German commerce raiders had been sinking whatever shipping they could intercept around New Zealand and Australia. One of these raiders – the Komet – found its way to our region after crossing the icy seas north of the USSR – with help from Soviet icebreakers. I have a blog on the Komet and a timeline of 1940 German raider sinkings around our region – so far totals 12 ships – still to assemble infor re 1941.
The vast majority of Aussies were oblivious to just how close the Japanese were.
Now, the majority of Aussies are oblivious as to just how close China AND the new world order are.
Remember Japan was on the side of the Allies in WWI and they benefited by being awarded some German “Mandates” in the Pacific – possibly some ex German Treaty ports on the China coast. Moving forward – in 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria mainly to run a major railroad and for coal I think. Eventually they were kicked out of the League of Nations. Early in the 1930’s there was the Washington Naval Treaty that limited the size of naval fleets and Japan would have been building their navy to the max.
In 1937 there were clashes with Chinese troops near Beijing which started the disastrous Japanese invasion of China. On 12Dec1937 Japan attacked and sunk the American gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze River outside Nanking. There is no excuse for Australia not being fully aware that all this was heading in one direction with a more assertive Japan and a USA taking shelter in neutrality.
Around a year after the German invasion of Poland 1 Sep 1939 which flicked us into WWII – Japan joined Germany and Italy in the AXIS so from Sep 1940 we knew for absolute sure – if we ever had doubts – that Japan was our enemy in the evolving global drama of WWII. In Sep 1940 Japan invaded parts of French Indo China painting with clarity the increasing risk to Australia. 1941 was a time of increasing Japanese militarization and attempts to secure oil and other natural resources.