Word: turakina
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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East of Singapore. Earlier victims told of shuttling back & forth across the South Seas in their below-decks prison, while they heard the guns above them hammering away at new game. The Turakina went down about twilight, bathed in flames, but not until two-thirds of her 58-man crew had been killed. The Komata took eight German shells amidships, which killed the chief officer and wounded the captain, when her radio operator defied orders to close down his wireless. The Rangitane was trapped by the raider's searchlight, sank flaming, with the loss of 13 crew members...
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