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Originally Posted by Hooston
I've just looked at U204's patrol log. They sank a 16 ton Icelandic (i.e. neutral) fishing boat on 31st May 1941, because it might reveal their position. https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/955.html
Really brings home the stupidity and moral bankruptcy of the regime and how it was inevitable that the evil little Nazi Doenitz would eventually drag the US (and even Brazil!) into the war against Germany.
Glad to say that Kaleun Walter Kell of U204 was killed 6 months later. Really disappointed that Doenitz was able to wriggle out at the end of the war. |
The US boats sank sampans and fishing boats during the war too. And mostly for the same reasons - to not get their location reported.