12
Sep

BRITISH TROOP SHIP SUNK ON THIS DAY

This Day In History: The Laconia is Sunk In WW II (1942)
Surviving the U boat sinking of the RMS Laconia 12 September 1942 – Broadsides – A collection of ...

A German U-boat (156) sank a British troop ship, the Laconia, a
former Cunard White Star ship, killing more than 1,400
men on September 12, 1942.

The commander of the German sub, Capt. Werner Hartenstein,
realizing that Italians POWs were among the passengers,
strove to aid in their rescue.

The Laconia Incident - Now Dramatised as The Sinking of the Laconia by Alan Bleasdale ~ Kuriositas

dear friends had gentle hearts: Werner Hartenstein should be remembered.

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