From Wikipedia.
JUNE 5: HMT Senateur Duhamel-- rammed by the USS Semmes, which mistook it for a U-boat.
JUNE 24: SS Ljibica Matkovic, Yugoslavian freighter torpedoed by U-404
JUNE 25: SS Nordal, Panamanian cargo ship torpedoed by U-404.
JUNE 26: SS Manuela, American freighter torpedoed off Cape Lookout by U-404
JUNE 28: SS William Rockefeller torpedoed by U-701.
The U-404 Had a Pretty Good Run. --GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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