'The Silent Soldier' Tells One Veteran's Story Of Surviving Little-Known WWII Tragedy

On Christmas Eve 1944, more than 2,000 American soldiers were aboard the troop ship SS Léopoldville crossing the English Channel to France, when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sank. Nearly 800 soldiers were killed. Many families did not learn the real story of how their loved ones died until years later.