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Images & Photographs
CGC Spencer sinks U-175 in 1943
240621-G-G0000-036.JPG Photo By: USCG Historian's Office (& NARA)

At Sea - Official Caption: "From two Coast Guard combat cutters docked in the background, a group of German prisoners are marched along the waterfront of an Allied port. They were picked up from the North Atlantic waters after their U-boats had been depth-charged and sunk. Their fighting days ended, the prisoners are under guard of British Marines after delivery by Coast Guard captors." Date: 20 April 1943; Photo No.: 1595 Photographer: Unknown Source - NARA Description: Prisoners from Duane are transferred to British Army authorities in Scotland. After interrogation by the British they made their way to POW camps in the U.S.


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