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This is apparently a somewhat altered yet true account of the attack using midget sub's on the German battleship Tirpitz, the sub commanders both got Victoria Crosses, I hadn't run across the story before.....
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I read about this. Many of the volunteers died in the subs due to lack of oxygen
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Rear Admiral Basil Charles Godfrey Place, VC, CB, CVO, DSC (19 July 1921 – 27 December 1994), known as Godfrey Place, was an officer in the Royal Navy and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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