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05-12-2011, 06:31 PM
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Helfrich signs the instrument of Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri, 2 September 1945. Image displayed at Wikipedia commons.
Luitenant-Admiraal Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich, GNL, KCB (October 11, 1886 Semarang - September 20, 1962 The Hague) of the Royal Netherlands Navy was a leading Dutch naval figure of World War II.
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At the outbreak of the war in the Pacific Helfrich assumed command of all Dutch naval units in the Dutch East Indies and gave instruction to wage war aggressively. His small force of submarines sank more Japanese ships in the first weeks of the war than the entire British and US navies together. An exploit which earned him the nickname "Ship-a-day Helfrich" (according to the Time magazine article linked to below, Helfrich's submarine force sank 54 Japanese ships in the first 54 days of the war).
Full Wikipedia article on Helfrich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Emil_Lambert_Helfrich)
Time magazine article on Helfrich, dated 9 March 1942 (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885896-1,00.html)
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Helfrich_NETHERLANDS_1945.jpg
Helfrich signs the instrument of Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri, 2 September 1945. Image displayed at Wikipedia commons.
Luitenant-Admiraal Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich, GNL, KCB (October 11, 1886 Semarang - September 20, 1962 The Hague) of the Royal Netherlands Navy was a leading Dutch naval figure of World War II.
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At the outbreak of the war in the Pacific Helfrich assumed command of all Dutch naval units in the Dutch East Indies and gave instruction to wage war aggressively. His small force of submarines sank more Japanese ships in the first weeks of the war than the entire British and US navies together. An exploit which earned him the nickname "Ship-a-day Helfrich" (according to the Time magazine article linked to below, Helfrich's submarine force sank 54 Japanese ships in the first 54 days of the war).
Full Wikipedia article on Helfrich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Emil_Lambert_Helfrich)
Time magazine article on Helfrich, dated 9 March 1942 (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885896-1,00.html)