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John Walter Bishop was in a lifeboat when the U-boat surfaced after the sinking of Beechwood, the Germans pointed a machine gun at them and asked for the master. John was also a survivor of a second torpedo attack on another, not yet identified, merchant ship. He was trapped and had to kick the door down to escape, still having nightmares about it ten years later.

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