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Arg...I mean - I didn't machine-gun any survivors, so....
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No, but sinking a hosptial ship with the red cross is tantamount to the same thing. You'd be on trial, just like the officers of U-852 were after the war.
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But yea - how did they find out? I guess Eck should have machine-gunned a few others?
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Google search for the "Peleus incident" or "Peleus affair". Ive found some good reading on this before. Long story short, some numbnuts forgot to destroy the boats war diary when the abandoned ship. Which i might add, was beached on the East african coastline so salvaging from the boat was a simple walk on the beach. Theres a great photo of that particualr IXD2 laying beached in the sand somewhere.
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An intresting note. I guess you could call it the "apologists" rational, but i read one article claiming his intent was to sink the tell tail wreckage. Not the people persay. It was dark and he coulndnt see. I think he acutally left the area and then came back after brooding on it. Weather or not thats the acutal case is up to debate.
Another note is that we, the US were guilty of the same thing, only it was much mroe deliberate. "Mush" morton from the USS wahoo spent 2 hours machine gunning shipwrecked japanese troops from a troop ship he had just sunk.
I read too much WW2 sub history
