ORIGINAL: el cid again
ORIGINAL: Daniel Oskar
I was curious so I started digging through what references I have and found in Whitley's that Lamotte-Piquett spent a period in dock in Osaka Japan in September 1941. It seems unlikely that it would participate on the allied side.
I would imagine that Lamontte-Piquette spent a period in Osaka because she had been captured with the fall of French Indo-China, as she had been left in port due to fuel shortages. However, if I included her in the mod I would have her escape to Australia or the DEI before then.
Regards,
Actually, Indochina was VICHY French and so her forces were ALLIED to Japan, nominally. Japan did not take over the ship until she killed all the French officers - 1944 I think- at some special dinner! [Only one unit escaped - a FFL "regiment" (battalion) at Hanoi didn't send its officers to the "dinner" and instead began a dramatic march - to Kunming - up the rail line! They then joined the Allies!] Japan COULD HAVE taken over the ship and other assets sooner, but didn't.
Thai ships damaged in a brief war in 1940 with France were also repaird in Japan. Thailand did the reverse - a nominal ally of Japan the Thai staged a coup on the Japanese in 1945.
OK, so there's a mutiny in 1941 some time after the battle of Koh Chang and the officers and crew decide to join the FF in Australia. [:)] I still like the idea of her showing up on the Allies. Otherwise the Japanese aren't going to use her and there's no use having her in the game. [:(]
