Finding : Sydney 's captain , senior officers likely to have died in first salvo . The unanswered questions have haunted the families of those brave sailors and airman that never came home , '' Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston , the chief of the Australian Defence Force , said in a written statement . Comment: German vessel , the Kormoran , was made to look like a cargo ship . Both ships went down ; more than 300 on Kormoran survived ; wrecks found last year .
Finding : Sydney 's captain , senior officers likely to have died in first salvo . Comment: German vessel , the Kormoran , was made to look like a cargo ship . Both ships went down ; more than 300 on Kormoran survived ; wrecks found last year .