Sydney: sailor identified but mystery remains

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By Brendan Nicholson*

DNA evidence has finally confirmed that a Royal Australian Navy sailor whose body was found in a life raft near Christmas Island in February 1942 came from the light cruiser HMAS Sydney (II), which vanished with all its 645 crew after a battle with a disguised German raider off Western Australia.

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