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14-12-2013, 10:39 AM
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Pity the fool
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And I'm not talking about the dive wreck off Albany either. It's the HMAS Perth that was sunk in battle with the Japanese in February 1942:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-1...vagers/5156320 Reports suggest that a commercial-scale salvage operator has basically raped the wreck on HMAS Perth, removing its superstructure and turrets presumably to sell off all the steel for scrap. How is it that a war grave is able to be destroyed like this? There are dead Australian servicemen in that shipwreck - hundreds of them. If this was Gallipoli there would be outrage.
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HMAS Perth wreck being destroyed by scavengers
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