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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
The incident was classified and kept secret for a long time which is why it is not widely known.
There was a whole other war being fought in early 44 between german E boats and the allies in the channel. The HMCS Athabaskan, a destroyer, was also torpedoed and sunk by a E boat on april 29 in another night battle.
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No wonder it was classified for all these years. The whole thing sounds like a cluster-fubar.
Atleast they figured out this stuff before D-Day. Just think of the havoc this could have caused if it happened the day of!
....But the defense/security was a wee bit higher on June 6.44