Crewmen of sunken German submarine on board U.S. navy rescue ship.
Crewmen of sunken German submarine on board U.S. navy rescue ship. Wearing fresh clothes and wrapped in blankets, crew members of a sunken German submarine eat hot soup aboard the U.S. Navy ship that rescued them after a British patrol bomber destroyed their U-boat in Atlantic waters near the Azores. When the captured German submarine commander disclosed that he had shot himself in the mouth in ä moment of depression"preceding his rescue, a U.S. Navy flight surgeon performed an immediate operation and successfully removed the bullet which had lodged in the enemy officer's spine, near the base of the brain.
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