Comments on: Tribute to Jack Wong Sue

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:32:19 +0000

Whatever comments are made about these brave soldiers, by would be historians who rely on faulty and incomplete (often fabrications by military personnel who were not even in the field)information, it cannot be denied that they willingly risked their lives behind enemy lines; living in the threat of betrayal and exposure, or torture and death, with no back-up in the field. The details of what they did, or did not do is insignificant. They put their lives on the line for their Country and that in itself should be enough! People of Lynette Silver’s ilk might do well to remember that. Could she have done what they did? We will never know!

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:15:55 +0000

Jack Wong Sue was seconded to a covert unit called Special Operations Australia (SOA) cover name Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD). Z Special Unit was an Administrative and Logistics unit to cater for Australian Imperial Force (AIF) (army only) recruits as well as a holding unit for all covert operatives under the umbrella of Allied Intelligence Bureau (AIB) prior to it being formed it was Special Operations Executive – Australia (SOE-Australia) a British covert unit. He did not spend six months on active service as he was extracted for medical reasons for a period of time before returning to Borneo. He did not witness any Death marches in Borneo as he was nowhere near the areas of the march. This is all covered at National archives Australia and can be seen on line. He was awarded the DCM, but not the United States Navy Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia. That was only awarded to US Submariners that had gone on a patrol and sunk Japanese shipping. Jack’s only trip on a US Submarine was a coveert insertion from Darwin to Borneo. One of the crew may have given it to him, but he would not have been awarded it by the US Navy. I am researching SOA and I intend to start up a web site on the operations carried out by SOA during WW2. The Australian SAS Company that was formed in July 1957 was on the same model as the British SAS that was serving in Malaya and Borneo. The Australian SAS whilst in Borneo was operating in parternship with the British 22 SAS

By: Horatio Aristotle Paterson

Horatio Aristotle Paterson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:16:30 +0000

What a man!

What a life!

What an Australian!