On the 13th day out they knew they were in for trouble. High above, two enemy planes had circled time & again. That night, when the torpedo struck, the noise was like the slamming of a bulkhead door. The big ship rolled slowly over on her side, then plunged.
Last week the Navy released these new details of the worst convoy disaster in U.S. history. On that night, last February, more than 850 U.S. soldiers and sailors died in the North Atlantic when two merchantmen went down. Said Ship's Cook George Dunningham: "There were a lot of men yelling and...
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