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John Elliott Smart

Lieutenant Commander John Elliott "Jack" Smart DSO OBE VRD (1 March 1916 – 3 February 2008) was an officer in the Royal Navy commanding one of the midget submarines that attacked the German cruiser Lützow and the Japanese cruiser Takao during the Second World War.

The XE class submarines HMS XE1 and XE3 was assigned to Operation Struggle, an attack on the Japanese cruisers Myōkō and Takao in the Johore Strait.



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