Operation Sabre
For the 2003 Serbian police operation, see Operation Sabre (Serbia).
Operation Sabre was an Australian military operation in World War Two. It involved cutting the Japanese submarine communications cable linking Saigon and Singapore by Sub-Lieutenant Ken Briggs,[1] operating from a midget submarine in the Saigon River delta on 31 July 1945.[2][3]
References
- ↑ "Briggs, Kenneth Maxwell". World War II Nominal Roll. Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ↑ "Australians at War". Australians at War. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ↑ "Far Flung Australians - cutting cables". Ww2australia.gov.au. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
Further reading
- Gill, G. Hermon (1968). Royal Australian Navy 1942–1945. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 2 – Navy. Volume 2. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 65475.
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