The Tiger's Revenge

Vice Admiral Christie, Commander of the United States Pacific Submarine Operations, gave a truly accurate assessment of Operation Jaywick when he wrote in his diary: “Ivan Lyon is an extremely brave man; possibly the bravest man I have ever met. Almost a single-handed endeavour of extremely bold pattern. My hat is off to them. Someday his exploits will be disclosed, and they will read stranger than any fiction.” ///// “There is little I can add to the stirring account of a great raid, told in the words of the gallant bunch of men who dared to challenge the Japanese at the height of their power in the Pacific. The story relates how a party left Australia on 1 September, 1943, and sailed nearly 3,000 miles through enemy controlled waters to strike a crippling blow at the heart of the Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere.” ///// Major-General Sir Collin Gubbins kcmg, dso, mc., Special Operations Executive Commander of Sabotage and Subversion Overseas, wrote of Operation Jaywick: “Tomorrow we will do what is possible… the impossible will take longer. Badly stated, the project was fantastic – to penetrate directly to the enemy’s heart, to attack him at his strongest point, and yet it was done, and carried through without loss and with minimum expenditure of resources. Truly it was epic.” ///// Corporal A P G Campbell (Operation Rimau) Said of Ivan Lyon “Not only did he appear to know everything but he could do everything associated with the job for which we were trained perfectly. He was a leader for whom every one of us would be willing to die”