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Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/7/2011 9:02:59 PM   
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PzB74
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Status: offline 		There was a fascinating story in a local norwegian web paper today:
Torpedoed 4 times

Not in English but the story and pictures speak for themselves I think
Never heard about anyone being torpedoed that many times and live.

The last sinking was near the entrance to the Bay of Aden; accordingly German and Japanese subs torpedoed 29 ships here in the first quarter of 1944.
Not a completely risk free to sail between Europe and India even late in the war.

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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/7/2011 9:10:57 PM   
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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/7/2011 9:14:46 PM   
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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/7/2011 9:16:37 PM   
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http://www.side3.no/article3081001.ece

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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/7/2011 9:44:03 PM   
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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/8/2011 12:11:03 AM   
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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/8/2011 12:41:59 AM   
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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/8/2011 1:42:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		On a similar vein i heard about one poor japanese civilian who was wounded at hiroshima by the A Bomb and sent on a hospital train to Nagaski, and we all know what happened there 3 days later !

He recently died of old age somwhere in his 90's iirc. thats either the luckiest or unluckiest man of the 20th century depending on your point of view.

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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/8/2011 1:00:17 PM   
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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/8/2011 4:17:16 PM   
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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/8/2011 4:42:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		There was another crazy story about some chinese found in german uniform at D-Day. The poor sob's were captured fighting the japanese, pressed into service, used to attack the russians, who in turn captured them, pressed them into service to fight the germans. They were captured a third time and pressed into service to defend the Atlantic Wall, who finally were captured by the americans.


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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/8/2011 5:53:36 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Rob Brennan UK

On a similar vein i heard about one poor japanese civilian who was wounded at hiroshima by the A Bomb and sent on a hospital train to Nagaski, and we all know what happened there 3 days later !

He recently died of old age somwhere in his 90's iirc. thats either the luckiest or unluckiest man of the 20th century depending on your point of view.


Rob, you naughty boy You know a certain Mr Fry got in trouble for that You'll be getting an angry e-mail from the Japanese embassy soon

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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/8/2011 6:22:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		One of the men from our town was captured at Corregidor and spent rest of the war as a prisoner.
According to him, 3 times he was shipped away from the Phillipinies, and his ship torpedoed. The 4th time he was shipped out, they put American prisoners on deck, along the railings. When he got home, he weighed 105 lbs. Said he had put on a lot of weight - when the war ended, he was 86 lbs.

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RE: Torpedoed and sunk 4 times! - 2/10/2011 10:16:20 PM   
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ORIGINAL: PzB

The last sinking was near the entrance to the Bay of Aden; accordingly German and Japanese subs torpedoed 29 ships here in the first quarter of 1944.
Not a completely risk free to sail between Europe and India even late in the war.


Yeah, decision about safe travel in Germany zone of influence seems questionable.




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