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[โ€“] gibmiser@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ya know, if I were a sailor on that boat if be proud as fuck and showing off that image. Assuming I wasn't traumatized...

[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And assuming you made it out alive.

She was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat U-410 near Naples with great loss of life on 18 February 1944.

A couple of years after this picture was taken.

The nazi submarine responsible was sunk by an US aircraft less than a month later.