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| WW2 Navy policy on the dead when a ship is scuttled? | |
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| Mark Schynert | Mar 13 2018, 04:58 AM Post #16 |
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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 | Mar 13 2018, 05:03 AM Post #17 |
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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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| Aaron_w | Mar 15 2018, 02:22 AM Post #18 |
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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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| jvenables | Mar 16 2018, 11:37 AM Post #19 |
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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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James from Brisbane, Australia Now living in Laos Nil illegitimi carborundum | |
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| Harold K | Mar 16 2018, 12:18 PM Post #20 |
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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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