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A Clandestine Operation in Keppel Harbour
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War
10 October 2023
Disguised as local fishermen, a team of Australian and British soldiers and sailors carried out a raid on Japanese shipping at Keppel Harbour during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore in 1943. The mission, Operation Jaywick, was featured as a comic in the 1965 edition of The Victor Book for Boys. But what actually happened during the mission, and what were some of the creative liberties taken by the book?
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Lynette Ramsay Silver, Deadly Secrets: The Singapore Raids, 1942–45 (Binda, New South Wales: Sally Milner Publishing, 2010).
Lynette Ramsay Silver, Krait: The Fishing Boat That Went to War (Singapore: Cultured Lotus, 2001).
Will Davies, Secret & Special: The Untold Story of Z Special Unit in the Second World War (Australia: Penguin Random House, 2021)