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Taking The OFFensiVe 1942–45 have the complete support and co-operation of the RAN’. 380 It was also agreed that the operation would be carried out under the guidance of DNI, but that in all other respects, especially financial, it would be regarded as an SOE activity. However, as Singapore lay at the very extremities of the SWPA, GHQ had no interest in the proposal, despite ardent support from Blamey. At that point, with the imprimatur of CNS Royle, planning for the operation began. 381 The RAN supplied the vessel Krait and most of the manpower. Fifteen young sailors were selected from Flinders Naval Depot near Melbourne in August—September 1942 for training for the operation, while Krait’s skipper and navigator, Lieutenant Carse, RAN Volunteer Reserve (RANVR) stated that he was selected personally by Long and provided with a letter of introduction by him to ISD. He had been at the RAN College at the same time as Long, but had left the service in the 1920s. ISD provided much of the material and some of the training for the raid, most of which was undertaken at Refuge Bay near Sydney and at the ISD base, ‘Z Experimental Station’, outside Cairns in North Queensland. Physical fitness, water skills, concealment, silent killing, handling of the collapsible kayaks — ‘folboats’ — and the placement of limpet charges were practised. The training was hard and thorough. One of the exercises was a kayak raid on Townsville Harbour, where the JAYWICK party succeeded in placing practice charges on a number of Allied warships and merchant vessels, without detection. Very thorough research was done to prepare the boats, ordnance, men and clothing. And while the personnel for the operation were under training, the intelligence that would support and shape the plan was being gathered. The work appears to have been done by Lyon and Campbell in isolation, although it is difficult to believe that the link to DNI did not provide something of a devil’s advocate service to test the planners’ hypotheses. 382 Nevertheless, this independent approach appears to have been standard for earlier special operations mounted from Australia, as formal instructions for planning and mounting operations were apparently not issued until 1945. 383 The initial result was not impressive. In a brief of the operational plan submitted in around February 1943, Krait was to sail to an island within eight miles of Singapore, and the party was to seize and hold captive at gunpoint the island’s inhabitants while the raiders paddled across the strait and destroyed their targets. It was anticipated that it would take the Japanese 48 hours to work out what had happened and come after the raiders. 384 It was fortunate that fate did not smile on this highly risky plan, as the unservicability of Krait caused a postponement of the operation. It is difficult to identify the sources of the intelligence on which such a plan could have been based. With the considerable force of DNI Long’s authority behind it, the mission should have had access to all the available intelligence on the Japanese presence in the Netherlands East Indies. 385 However, the only sources quoted by the planners, or deduced by other researchers, leave some considerable gaps in the knowledge that the operational commander of such a mission would want to have. 386 125
126 <strong>Missing</strong> <strong>Pieces</strong> A portrait of the members of Operation JAYWICK MV Krait, the merchant vessel that carried the members of Operation JAYWICK
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introduction By ‘intelligence’
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codebreaking appendix - australian
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aPPendix practices and personnel, b
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archival Records national archives
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