Operation Rimau
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2014
- September 11, 2014 marks the 70th anniversary of the top secret espionage mission, Operation Rimau.
To commemorate the Rimau men, SBS Online has produced an online excusive interactive documentary: Operation Rimau, as told by Booker Prize nominated writer, M. J. Hyland.
Told in four chapters, Hyland charts the mission from its planning stages, through to its unique technology: the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ - a one-man submersible canoe designed by the British to attack targets at the height of the Pacific War, through to the gripping final chapter in Singapore.
www.sbs.com.au/operationrimau
Operation Hornbill was the original mission, far more ambitious but was thwarted by a ship builders strike, who were supposed to have built a motorised junk. A motorised junk may have saved them from getting stuck near a Hei Ho post with no wind. Ivan did take 5 men with him, even after they scuttled the junk and are believed to have sunk 3 ships or seriously impaired. The bravery of these men and their sacrifice should never be forgotten.
They truly were the definition of heroes
This was made into a great TV drama 'Heroes,the return '
'Rimau,what does it mean?
'It's Malay , for tiger sir'
'And i intend to release one in the south China sea.'