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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

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...

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago
[-] Norgur@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

A little paint here.and there and it'll be as good as new.

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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