For Australians, it was the biggest naval disaster of World War II. When the light cruiser HMAS Sydney disappeared without a trace in November 1941, all 645 crewmembers — more than a third of the men who died serving on Australian naval ships during the entire war — went with it. After several days went by without word from the vessel, a small armada of rescue ships was sent out to search near its last known position off the coast of Western Australia. They came across a handful of lifeboats bobbing in the waves of the Indian Ocean, but they were filled with Germans, not Aussies. Under interrogation, the Germans said they were the crew of the Kormoran, a raider that had been lurking in Allied shipping lanes disguised as a merchant ship.
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