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The Fritz X met with some success.



The newest book "Allied Secret:The Sinking of HMT Rohna" can be
purchased
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...=9780806134185




Lets see up to now I know of the following books on the subject

"Allied Secret:The Sinking of HMT Rohna" by Carlton Jackson
'Forgotten Tragedy' also by Carlton Jackson
'The Rohna Disaster' by James Bennet
the section on the incident in 'Joining the War at Sea'

There was also a resolution passed in the House of representatives
about the incident

This must be some new definition of the words 'secret'
and 'forgotten'. If you want another 'forgotten' incident consider
the loss of HMT Lancastria which was bombed and sunk
off St Nazaire with the loss of 3000 troops and 1000 civilians
in 1940

(One book about this sinking was also called "The Forgotten
Tragedy", In fact this title seems a rather popular one with authors
as I got about 100 hits on a search)

Keith

The is also the Bari poison gas incident that was covered-up during
the war. In that incident in Dec 1943 a Luftwaffe strike in the
Italian harbor sunk 17 ships including a Liberty ship loaded with
mustard gas shells which killed both the crew (over 1000) and several
thousand civilians on land as the gas was released in the air.
The Bari strike was known at the time as the "mini Pearl Harbor" and
quickly covered up.
Got anything else to say, Keith? It may not be "secret" anymore, but
it is not well known. Yet you put the guy down for asking a good
question.


No I poked a little gentle fun at shock horror book titles
by pointing out that it is not unknown or secret but has been known
about for many years and there have been dozens of articles and
several books written on the subject.

The sad reality is that it was just one of the many such disasters that
happened in WW2.

Keith