| |||||||
| Portal | Forums | Watch Videos | WW2 Radio | Register | Arcade | Gallery | FAQ | Members List | Calendar | Mark Forums Read |
| The war at sea Discus the naval campaigns of ww2 |
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
11-10-2007, 01:36 PM
| #1 (permalink) |
| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 3,245
You're Top Poster: #3   | The Sinking of SS Tembien - Allied POW's SS TEMBIEN (27th February 1942) Sunk by Upholder whilst en-route Tripoli to Italy. 468 Allied P.O.W. aboard of which 390 died. 68 Italians and 10 Germans were also lost. Survivors were picked up by Destroyer Strale and taken back to Tripoli. This was the second such loss of Allied POW's in the Mediterranean in 1942.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
|  |
|
« Previous Thread
|
Next Thread »
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
Linear Mode
| |
All times are GMT. The time now is 10:01 AM.
