Collected-018 Shinyo
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial
English - June 14, 2020 23:45 - 20 minutes - 37.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHistory Education australianwarmemorial collected fromawhispertoabang Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Towards the end of World War Two, Japan built and mobilised thousands of killer boats to defend its homeland and occupied territories from possible Allied invasion. In Episode 18 of Collected, Louise Maher discovers how one of these Shinyo suicide launches was captured by Australian troops in Borneo and used for joyrides after the war before finding a permanent home at the War Memorial.