Laconia incident
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laconia-incident-214-3890530
title:
Laconia incident
text:
The Laconia incident was a series of events surrounding the sinking of a British passenger ship in the Atlantic Ocean on 12 September 1942, during World War II, and a subsequent aerial attack on German and Italian submarines involved in rescue attempts. RMS Laconia, carrying 2,732 crew, passengers, soldiers, and prisoners of war, was torpedoed and sunk by U-156, a German U-boat, off the West African coast. Operating partly under the dictates of the old prize rules, the U-boat's commander, Korvet
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Incident during the naval battles of the Second World War
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident
date created:
2001-12-13T07:58:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T17:34:48Z
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13
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