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U-459
Posted by: Jim Duffy ()
Date: August 03, 2008 01:14PM

In his book on the sinking of the Laconia, Leonce Peillard notes that the Milch Cow U-459 came across a lifeboat on September 2, 1942. The men in the boat reported that their ship had been sunk off Trinidad and they had been blown out into the ocean. According to Peillard, the U-boat gave them some food and cigarettes, and gave them their position and the position of the nearby Cape Verde Islands so they could set a proper course. Has anyone seen a reference to this incident anywhere else? And, does anyone have any idea what ship these men may have been from? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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