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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.
Nov 16, 2009 · A German U-boat sinks a British troop ship, the Laconia, killing more than 1,400 men on September 12, 1942. The commander of the German sub, Capt. Werner Hartenstein, realizing that Italians...
Learn about the history and the unfolding of one of the most controversial incidents of the U-boat war, the Laconia Incident. It casted a long shadow over the U-boat service and was to have far reaching consequences after the war.
At 2207 hours, U-156 sank British troopship Laconia 290 miles northeast of Ascension Island; U-156 surfaced and rescued 200 of the 2,741 aboard, most of whom were Italian prisoners of war, which was a surprise for U-156's commanding officer Korvettenkapitän Werner Hartenstein. 13 Sep 1942.
Apr 6, 2016 · That command—soon known as the “Laconia Order”—arose from a September 12, 1942, engagement that caused more deaths than the sinking of any other single Allied ship by a U-boat during the Battle of the Atlantic and that made an already cruel campaign even crueler.
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Jan 6, 2011 · The sinking of the RMS Laconia marked a major turning point in World War II. When war broke out, the ship was commandeered by the British Government for use as a troopship and fitted with eight...
BBC Interviews with survivors of the Laconia sinking. Following the story of the sinking of the Cunard Liner Laconia in World War II through the pe...
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