I have deliberately avoided peppering the text of this book with a profusion of footnotes and references. The publishers and I readily agreed these would achieve little for most readers while slowing the pace of the narrative. Nevertheless, specialist readers and scholars are entitled to know on what authority the author bases his facts.
My primary sources included taped interviews with Jean Andrew, Don Caldwell Smith, Rahel Cohen, Jeff Cooté ,Kevin Cooté, Margaret Coote (née Hamilton), Donald Dunkley, David Goldstone, Dr James Macken, Ian Mitchell, and ‘Darby’ Munro. Copies of these interviews will be deposited with the Naval Heritage Centre, Garden Island, where they will be available to researchers. I also drew on taped interviews with Reg Andrew, and log books and other documents, from the author Steven Carruthers. Steve’s material included transcripts of research interviews with officers from USS Chicago conducted in 1981 and 1982 for the television documentary Warriors of the Deep. The interviews were not included in the broadcast version, and only the transcripts survive. Steve intends to deposit this material with the Sea Power Centre in Canberra, where it will be available to scholars.
Roy Cooté’s dive log and photographs were supplied by his grandson Craig Cooté. The original log book is now with the Naval Heritage Centre on Garden Island. Other first person accounts came from publicly available documents lodged in the Australian National Archive, most often with its Melbourne centre, and at the Australian War Memorial, in Canberra. I drew on British cabinet minutes and papers from 1939 to 1942, freely available at the Public Records Office in Kew, and on intelligence digests and summaries for April, May and June 1942, lodged with the Naval Historical Foundation in Washington. Contemporary newspapers also provided a host of material. Newspapers are stored on microfilm at the various state libraries around Australia, and I drew heavily from records held at the State Library of New South Wales and the State Library of Victoria.
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KEY DOCUMENT FOLDERS
National Archives of Australia, Melbourne
B6121 Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney Harbour—Signals.
MP138/1 Steady Hour—Sinking of Japanese Midget Submarine.
MP138/1 Japanese Midget Submarine—Sections Stowed at Clark Island.
MP150/1 Naval Auxiliary Patrol.
MP151/1 Awards in Connection with Japanese Midget Submarine Attack.
MP1049/5 Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney Harbour.
MP1185/9 Publicity Contravening Censorship Requests, Midget Submarine Attack.
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
AWM52 Weekly Intelligence Summaries—Submarine Attack Sydney Harbour.
AWM54 Japanese Midget Submarine Attack—Reconstruction of Events.
AWM54 Weekly Intelligence Summaries—Submarine Attack Sydney Harbour, 1942.
AWM54 Plans and Diagrams, Photographs of Midget Submarine.
AWM67 Official History, 1939–45 War: Records of Gavin Long, General Editor.
AWM124 Report of Investigation into Japanese Torpedo.
PR 86/24 Lance Bullard’s Account of the Divers’ Role.
Sea Power Centre, Canberra
Register of Requisitioned Motor Patrol Boats and Miscellaneous Examination Vessels and Harbour Craft.
Naval Historical Foundation,Washington
SRNS-0001-0078 Summary of Japanese Naval Activities.
SRNS-1517 FRUMEL Daily Digest.
Public Records Office, Kew
Cabinet Minutes and Papers, 1939–1942.
Television documentaries
He’s Coming South—Animax Films, 2005.
Sydney at War:The Untold Story—Australian Film Commission, 2004.
Warriors of the Deep—Program Development, 1982.