TBM-Legend, I fully endorse Islandlad's condemnation of your outrageous post. If the UK 'abandoned' Australia then what is my Dad doing buried in a CWGC grave in Yokahama, alongside many other UK and Commonwealth dead? Are you saying that prioritising Germany's defeat before that of Japan was a betrayal of Australia? I suggest that reversing that primary strategic decision would have resulted in eventual Allied defeat, hardly a good outcome for Australia. The link you posted is pure anti-UK polemic. You obviously subscribe to it, I don't. That you chose to add it to a thread about a US warship fire simply points to you being a mere troll.
I apologise for adding to this unnecessary thread drift, but some posts have to be challenged. TBM-Legend's is such a post.