The Laconia incident was a series of events surrounding the sinking of a British passenger ship in the Atlantic Ocean on 12 September 1942, during World...
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which involved additional German U-boats and became known as the Laconia incident. Laconia was 601.3 ft (183.3 m) long, with a beam of 73.7 ft (22.5 m)....
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The Laconia Order (German: Laconia-Befehl) was issued by Großadmiral Karl Dönitz during World War II as a result of the Laconia incident, forbidding the...
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The Sinking of the Laconia is a two-part television film, first aired on 6 and 7 January 2011 on BBC Two, about the Laconia incident; the sinking of the...
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of Doric Greek Laconia, Indiana Laconia, New Hampshire Laconia, Tennessee RMS Laconia, 1911–1917, sunk in the First World War RMS Laconia 1921–1942, sunk...
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States Army Air Forces. The event became known as the "Laconia incident" and resulted in the "Laconia Order", an order from the Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote...
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German submarine U-156 (1941) (category Maritime incidents in March 1943)
the main participant in the Laconia Incident in September 1942, during which she torpedoed and sank the troopship Laconia west of Africa. Whilst rescuing...
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Robert C. Richardson III (section Laconia incident)
became known as the "Laconia incident", and led Grossadmiral Karl Dönitz, chief of German Submarine Operations, to issue the "Laconia Order" to his U-boat...
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the first of three friendly fire incidents during the Laconia incident, the German submarine U-156 sank RMS Laconia, a British transport carrying 1,793...
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Nativity. On 6 and 7 January 2011, he appeared in a dramatisation of the Laconia incident on BBC Television.[citation needed] In 2013, he starred in multi-award-winning...
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leading role of a passenger in the drama The Sinking of the Laconia, about the Laconia incident. The two-part television film first aired in January 2011...
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Commandant Duboc (F743). Vichy French ships were involved with the Laconia incident. Both the Vichy French Navy and Free French Navy fought the Battle...
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issuing War Order No. 154 in 1939, and another similar order after the Laconia incident in 1942, not to rescue survivors from ships attacked by submarine....
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operations Robert C. Richardson III, brigadier general, principal in the Laconia incident --S-- Beth Sanner, deputy director of national intelligence Norton...
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Lisbon Maru (category Maritime incidents in October 1942)
by death toll of ships sunk by submarines MV Awa Maru SS Cap Arcona Laconia incident "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru". lisbonmaru.com. Retrieved 8 December...
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war Arabic pledge Sussex pledge Tsushima Maru War Order No. 154 Laconia incident Laconia Order List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines Karl Dönitz...
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and Africa. American bombers based at Wideawake were engaged in the Laconia incident. The only local military action during World War II occurred on 9 December...
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interned Italian civilians and prisoners of war SS Shuntien (1934) Laconia incident "The HMS Jersey: Gruesome Revolutionary Prison Ship". History Things...
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events surrounding the World War II ocean liner RMS Laconia and the Laconia incident. Bleasdale married Julie Moses on 28 December 1970. They have two sons...
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pioneer Werner Hartenstein (1908–1943), U-boat captain involved in the Laconia incident Mike Hartenstine (born 1953), American football player This page lists...
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nearest landmass to where the Laconia went down, and had launched B-24 Liberators to attack the U-boats during the Laconia incident. Wade fishes near Ascension...
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ashore in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. The Sinking of the Laconia depicts the Laconia Incident and a B-24's attempts to sink the German submarine U-156...
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flying a Red Cross-flag and rescuing survivors of a torpedoed ship (Laconia incident), and U-107 operating off Freetown, Sierra Leone under the command...
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United States war crimes (section Other incidents)
recorded 1,326 criminal incidents of all types involving American forces, of which an unspecified number were rapes. In the Laconia incident, U.S. aircraft attacked...
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September 1942 Laconia incident where a B-24 attacked submarines in the process of rescuing passengers from a stricken liner. The subsequent Laconia Order forbade...
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part in rescuing survivors from RMS Laconia which the U-156 had torpedoed and sunk, known as the Laconia incident. By 1944 Dumont d'Urville's armament...
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2011 United Kingdom Germany The Sinking of the Laconia (TV miniseries) Uwe Janson Drama. RMS Laconia incident 2011 Latvia Three to Dance Dancis pa trim Arvīds...
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RMS Lancastria (category Maritime incidents in France)
sinking and went on to command the RMS Laconia, losing his life on 12 September 1942 in the Laconia incident off West Africa. There were 2,477 survivors...
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jewellery, and desecrating 38 coffins from the castle's mausoleum. Laconia incident: US aircraft attacking Germans rescuing the sinking British troopship...
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first world cruise (the sinking of the RMS Laconia gave rise to the Laconia incident during the Battle of the Atlantic) Margaret Beavan: politician Peter...
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