Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strictly Filthy. The destroyer tagged the Jap ship for two days; when she sailed from Wake, the Americans prepared to board her again. From 1,000 yards to windward, the crew of the Murray was sickened by the stench of sickness, "like the sweet, sickly odor of rotten fruit...
...four U.S. Navy technicians aboard, some of the Brazilian sailors were celebrating Independence Day. A stunning explosion rocked the Baía. Subsequent blasts literally blew her apart. Blue-bloused sailors were tossed into the waves. Commander Davila Garcia Albuquerque, his arm shattered by the explosion, shouted to his crew, "Save yourselves; I'm finished." But few of them were able to. Three minutes after the first explosion the Baía sank...
...freighter S.S. Balfe came upon six of the Baía's life rafts, pulled aboard the 22 miserable survivors who gave the world its first hint of the disaster. Later, other rescue vessels picked up a few more of the Baía's 400-odd crew members, landed them at the port of Recife before a crowd of solemn men and weeping women. Only a handful were saved. The survivors believed that the Baía had struck a floating mine, exploded the magazine...
...Argentine Navy treated the U-530's crew of 54 men to a hot meal and a haircut, then interned them in a Navy rest camp. Skipper Wermoutt's story: on V-E day, the U-530 was operating in the North Atlantic. He had decided to surrender at Mar del Plata. He did not explain why it had taken him more than two months to get there, why the sub had jettisoned its deck guns, why the crew members carried no identification, nor what had happened to the ship...
Would the Argentines, who had declared war on the Axis only four months ago, be allowed to keep the U-530 and its Nazi crew? Said Argentina's Acting Foreign Minister César Ameghino: the problem would be resolved "in a spirit of full cooperation with the United Nations...