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Old April 5th, 2008, 02:51 AM
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Default Re: HOLLANDIA (JAYAPURA) in 1944

Hello Mike and Jeff,

Mike we faced her starboard side as she passed perhaps 150-200 yards from us, then commenced fire after she cleared the second group of us to the west, about twice her own length in distance, forward batteries first, with the aft gun barrels coming around, when her stern became visible to us. Puffs of brown and black smoke from 5 inch batteries, with muffled booms a split second or so later as she moved farther away, joined in with rapid reports by batteries of 40mm with the rounds tracing toward shore. She turned around, came back and did the same with her port side guns while heading back to us.
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