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Dying at sea-- and rescue.

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Posted by Bruce from DC on August 4, 2000 at 13:15:10

In Reply to: Re: Das Boot. posted by Shawn Harvey on August 4, 2000 at 11:39:03:

In the instances I was referring to (both the US crews gunning down survivors and the U-Boat crews' assistance), the survivors were in lifeboats. The U-Boat captains' logs were corraborated by survivors' acocunts. I believe the survivors were given water and perhaps some food by the U-Boat crews.

At least in the Atlantic, there was a very large amount of shipping traffic in defined "lanes." This made the chances of rescue fairly good if you were in a lifeboat. Obviously, if you were in the water in the North Atlantic, hypothermia would finish you in an hour or less.

I personally know a man who served as a fireman (coal stoker) on both military and civilian ships in WWII. He had two ships sunk from under him. One was torpedoed; I can't remember what sank the other one. Needless to say, since I was born after WWII, he survived all of these sinkings.

As many survivors of that era will tell you, they were grateful for even a 1 percent chance of making it out alive.

An interesting and somewhat unrelated bit of information: during the "Battle of Britain" in 1940 the Germans unleashed a furious air attack on Britain. There were large numbers of planes shot down by both sides, and many of them went down in or over the English Channel. One of the factors that allowed the British to survive the Nazi onslaught was that they were better at rescuing downed pilots than the Germans. The planes could be reproduced fairly easily; an experienced combat pilot cannot be.
RBB --
"Still getting the wax out of my ears."

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