Machine gunning survivors of sunken military vessels was hardly uncommon. There's reports of british and norwegian forces machine gunning crews of sunken german destroyers in Narvik. But then they strafed the beaches an dunkirk, it's swings and roundabouts, part and parcel of the horrors of war. Interestingly enough one of those destroyers in Narvik can still be seen, the captain knew she was sinking so rammed her into the side of the fjord, unlike other destroyers that did the same this one caught on a ledge with the bow protruding from the water and is still there to this day. I saw it some years ago when I was visiting my father who lives up in Harstad these days.
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