Re: The bombing of Striking Force off Kangean on 4 February 1942

Pardon absence folks, been away off-line. But very interesting discussion while I was gone I see!

First, very nice detailed photo analyses Bob! I certainly believe it is not Exeter so that leaves only one suspect, doesn’t it?

Re the photo, although it appears more 'grainy' could this be from the same 'set' taken from HMAS Hobart on 14th?

And Jeff, somewhere in the thread you said;

“……………I noticed somehwere that Doorman did not think the US destroyers' 4-inch guns (non-turreted, which looks weird to me, though not nearly as weird as the Java) would be effective against the Japanese ships.”

By ‘non turreted’ what do you mean? At first I thought you may have meant ‘non enclosed’ but given Java’s guns are enclosed it cant be that.

Kevin

PS. And I just gotta ask, how do you post a photo like was done in first post of this thread?