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ADDITIONS 2010 / 2024 - A LAST UPDATE

8)ADDITIONS 2017


05 MAR 2017 - Added at BRAZIL THE HARD ROAD TO WAR - THE LAST STRAW page.

http://www.sixtant.net/2011/artigos.php?cat=brazil-the-hard-road-to-war-*&sub=the-hard-road-to-war-&tag=14)the-last-straw-*


05 MAR 2017 - Added one picture at ROYAL NAVY AT FREETOWN with a large view of one British Convoy plying the waters of the south Atlantic circa 1942.

http://www.sixtant.net/2011/artigos.php?cat=royal-navy-south-atlantic-command&sub=british-royal-navy-south-atlantic&tag=1)royal-navy-freetown


28 FEB 2017- Added at US SHIPS SUNK S/Z WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON PAGE, Two pictures from the damage the US ship sustained when attacked by U-558 some 120 miles south of Kingston Jamaica.

http://www.sixtant.net/2011/artigos.php?cat=ships-sunk-usa-&sub=u-s-ships-t--w&tag=10)william-boyce-thompson-u-185


10 FEB 2017 - Added at SHIPS SUNK USA (ABC) ANNE HUTCHINSON, the picture of the Liberty ship when struggling to remain afloat. Torpedoed twice, on October 28, 1943 the Liberty Ship SS Anne Hutchinson remained afloat thanks to welded construction. Picture taken 10/28/43 after the ship broke in two forward of # 4 hold. Photo www.armed-guard.com

http://www.sixtant.net/2011/artigos.php?cat=ships-sunk-usa-&sub=u-s-ships-a--c-&tag=9)anne-hutchinson-u-504


25 JAN 2017 - Added at ROYAL NAVY'S LOSSES IN SOUTH ATLANTIC a clipping from a British newspaper reporting the sinking of HMS Dunedin at the ship's page. Her survivors experienced a terrible ordeal when their lifeboats were attacked by furious sharks and many died from thirst when in delirous jumped in the sea. Only sixty five survived when they were rescued by US cargo shp Nishmaha bound for Philadelphia.

http://www.sixtant.net/2011/artigos.php?cat=royal-navy-south-atlantic-command&sub=british-royal-navy-losses-south-atlantic&tag=4)hms-dunedin-d-93


 

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