Some great news. I am honoured and deeply grateful to some fine historians agreeing to come on board The Observation Post as contributors and editors. This been done to open the scope of the website to more new and interesting military history, academic dissertations, opinion peices, reviews and histories.
The hope is to eventually include more of South Africa’s leading military historians so as to give them access to a consumer driven and social platform that allows for effective reach to a targeted and interested audience.
My sincere thanks to Prof. Evert Kleynhans, Dr. David Katz and Dr. Garth Benneyworth for their commitment going forward and I’m sure that four heads are better than one to come up with really great content generation.
Peter Dickens
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A typical example of the danger, survival and sacrifice in South African waters is the story of the sinking of the “City of Johannesburg” by German submarine U-504 (seen in the featured image above). U-504 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany’s Kriegsmarine during World War II, the SS City of Johannesburg was a merchant vessel carrying supplies off the coast of East London, South Africa.
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