(SA) Let There Be Heroes

Adventure! It's exciting story by Denver Morgan is entitled Let them be Heroes.

September the 12th, 1941. Albany lost with all hands. No radio contact prior to sinking. Stop. Investigating. Stop. Copy to Royal Australian Air Force headquarters. Stop. October the 2nd, 1941. City of York sinking of Darwin. Stop. Reports indicate attack by unidentified freighter, flying French flag. Stop. Copy to British intelligence. Stop. October 29, 1941.

Prior to New England on fire, making for Melbourne. Stop. Claims intercepted by cargo vessel flying the Dutch flag. Stop. Copy to Royal Australian Navy headquarters. Good day, men. Mr. Don, smoke if you want to.

Somebody opened a window with you. It's like the old man's shearing shed in here. Right. Now, as you know, as part of coastal command, our job is to help out the Navy and keeping the shipping lanes open.

As you also know, our shipping losses have been pretty crooked in the last three or four months. In the main, this has been due to increased U-boat activity, but there's another factor which has been brought to our attention, and that's the operations of an armed enemy merchantman known as Rader-Jean.

Over the gen on this operation we have with us this morning Lieutenant Commander Watkins of Pop, that's British, naval intelligence. With the assistance of the slight projector, he'll give the lowdown on how this Jerry operates.

Lieutenant Commander Watkins. Thank you, Wing Commander. A good morning, gentlemen. The pictures you were about to see were taken by our agents some nine months ago when Rader G was in keel. The Rader G is the code name we have designated. As you can see on this slide, the registered name of this vessel is the Komeron. She was built in 1939 and was operated by the Hamburg