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Originally Posted by nikbear
Not alot to enjoy really,when so much is made of U-boat commanders supposedly giving orders to machine gun crews of life boats, they had no such hesatation in machine gunning a u-boat crew who were obviously abandoning ship and jumping into the water  one rule for the victor another for the vanquished,and history is written anew:hmm: |
Apparently this was done to keep the crews from re-boarding and scuttling the boat. I haven't heard of a case where the u-boat crews were machine gunned after getting in the water, but remember there are guns on deck, and they are near where the crew would get out, and you don't want to give them a chance to man them.