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WW2 Navy policy on the dead when a ship is scuttled?
Topic Started: Mar 10 2018, 06:12 PM (484 Views)
Mark Schynert
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Aaron_w
Mar 13 2018, 12:13 AM
Thank you to all for understanding the intent of my post. There are many ways it could have gone sideways, and in fact I probably wouldn't have asked on most of the other places I frequent. You guys tend to be pretty level headed.



Grant, I don't know about that specifically but I do recall a Twilight Zone / Outer Limits kind of show with a similar theme. Workers hearing banging in a ship that turned out to be trapped crew members. I don't recall if it was a happy ending or supernatural "it was the ghosts" kind of thing.
The Twilight Zone (I think) episode this evokes is one where a Nazi sub is trying to evade the Allies hunting for it in mid-May 1945 (after VE Day) but the banging while it is submerged gives it away and it is forced to the surface and captured. When the sub was eventually dismantled, the body/skeleton of a forced laborer (Romanian IIRC) was found between the hulls, with a sledge hammer. Way creepy, not to mention improbable, but in the Sixties that was the way spec fiction worked on TV. And I may be recalling it horribly wrong, more than fifty years forward.
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Mark Schynert
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I Googled it--not Twilight Zone, but One Step Beyond, "The Haunted U-Boat" featuring our old friend from Hogan's Heroes, Werner Klemperer, as a war criminal fleeing to someplace aboard the sub.
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Mark Schynert
Mar 13 2018, 05:03 AM
I Googled it--not Twilight Zone, but One Step Beyond, "The Haunted U-Boat" featuring our old friend from Hogan's Heroes, Werner Klemperer, as a war criminal fleeing to someplace aboard the sub.
I never heard of that series. I found that episode on youtube, not what I was remembering but interesting. I thought that fake documentary thing was an early 70s thing with shows like "in search of", I had no idea they were doing that in the late 50s.
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Harold K
Mar 11 2018, 01:27 AM
I've read it twice and nowhere do I see a mention of the a/c type
It is a TBM-1C Avenger.

The discovery is documented on the Bent Prop Project's website: https://bentprop.org/media/press/

Scroll down about one-third of the page...
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jvenables
Mar 16 2018, 11:37 AM
It is a TBM-1C Avenger.
Cheers James :)

Now then, the story becomes more interesting. Just one set of remains? I hope we learn more of this.
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