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TIL About the Laconia Incident where a German U-Boat sunk the RMS Laconia, a British passenger liner. When it was rescuing survivors and towing them to a French handover, it was attacked by a US B-24 and led to the Kriegsmarine no longer assisting ships they sunk for the rest of the war.

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