Posted on May 3, 2018

WW2: Prisoner on the High Seas, Witness - BBC World Service

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A surprise attack, a ship sunk, a crew captured - a veteran of the British Merchant Navy remembers his encounter with a German commerce raider in the South Atlantic in May 1940.

WW2: Prisoner on the High Seas, Witness - BBC World Service

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WW2: Prisoner on the High Seas, Witness - BBC World Service

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