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Originally Posted by Shelton
Press releases, always looking for a good propaganda angle, suggested that Gertrude had been attacked and "hijacked" for food "by a Nazi U-boat crew apparently desperate for provisions." The resulting article appeared in the New York Times on July 28 and undoubtedly caused a few chuckles, especially when readers learned that the trawler's cargo consisted of twenty tons of onions.
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U-166 didn't sink. It's crew was overcome by bad-breath and the captain scuttled the ship. They were only German after all, not French.
