PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoHMS Penelope, nicknamed the "HMS Pepperpot", due to the damage suffered in missions during WWII, 1942lemmy.worldimagemessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down12
arrow-up1148arrow-down1imageHMS Penelope, nicknamed the "HMS Pepperpot", due to the damage suffered in missions during WWII, 1942lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squaregibmiser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·4 months agoYa know, if I were a sailor on that boat if be proud as fuck and showing off that image. Assuming I wasn’t traumatized…
minus-squarecabbage@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-24 months agoAnd assuming you made it out alive. She was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat U-410 near Naples with great loss of life on 18 February 1944. A couple of years after this picture was taken. The nazi submarine responsible was sunk by an US aircraft less than a month later.
Ya know, if I were a sailor on that boat if be proud as fuck and showing off that image. Assuming I wasn’t traumatized…
And assuming you made it out alive.
A couple of years after this picture was taken.
The nazi submarine responsible was sunk by an US aircraft less than a month later.