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captain queeg

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2. In the video I thought I heard it said that the merchant marine suffered more casualties
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:26 AM
Mar 2020

Than any other service. That didn’t really sound right, I might have heard it wrong. But a great many died in the Battle of the Atlantic, so maybe so. Thousands of ships were sunk and the odds for survival were very slim. It wasn't that many years ago that the US officially recognized them as military veterans. Pretty shitty that it took so long.

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