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World War II vet vividly recalls ship sunk by Germans
Photo credit: Karen Wiles Stabile | George Ziegler, 86, who was a Motor Machinist's Mate, 3rd class with the U.S. Coast Guard, holds a photograph of himself when he was 19-years-old. (Nov. 5, 2009)
It was dark and cold when the explosion rocked the night sky off Iceland. George Ziegler, aboard a destroyer headed from New York to Northern Ireland, knew what it meant.
Somewhere out there a ship had been hit by torpedoes from a German U-boat, a submarine. That ship, carrying 199 sailors, was going down.
"You didn't hear the screams, but you knew men were screaming," Ziegler said,...
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