Fremantle Was Valuable Base For Submarines
PERTH, August 20. It can now be revealed that United States submarines using Fremantle as a base claim the sinking of about 2.000.000 tons of enemy shipping and the damaging of 3.500,000 tons during the Pacific campaign. At one stage the Fremantle base reported the destruction of one-third of all Japanese merchant shipping sunk and more than 1,000,000 tons to December. 1943. Six or seven submarines working out of Fremantle in one month bagged some 130.000 tons, according to figures released by the United States Navy. At one time it was the only offensive force operating from Australia—in the grim days that followed the fall of Java. The submarines attacked targets north of Australia, the effectiveness of which was to be the first nail in Japan's coffin. Fremantle became one of the biggest bases in the Pacific, so far as submarines were concerned, with 50 submarines carrying the war into Ihe enemy’s communication lanes.
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Northern Advocate, 22 August 1945, Page 4
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