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Sean Davis @seanmdav - Fun submarine combat history: the only known international submarine-to-submarine rescue in history was in July 1945, when the USS Cod (SS-224) surfaced to rescue the wrecked Dutch O-19, which had run aground.
Once the Dutch crew had all been brought safely aboard the Cod, the Cod sunk the Dutch boat with two torpedoes and fire from 5-inch guns. As fate would have it, a Navy archivist on board during the Cod's last combat patrol of WWII captured the whole rescue on video (which you can find on YouTube).
The Cod, which is obviously retired but still operational and seaworthy, is on full display at dock in Cleveland. A martini glass insignia on the boat commemorates the party the Dutch O-19 crew threw in Freemantle, Australia, for the American submariners who rescued them.
Even more fun submarine warfare trivia: there is only one instance in history of a U.S. submarine crew rescuing a survivor of a destroyed enemy sub. On the very same day that the Dutch crew threw that party for the Americans in Freemantle, the USS Spikefish (SS-404) encountered what they believed to be a Japanese submarine.
The next day, on August 14, 1945, the targeted and sunk the Japanese boat. One Japanese survivor, who identified the submarine as the Japanese I-373, was found and rescued-on August 15, the day all American forces were ordered to cease hostilities because the war was over.
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Sean Davis @seanmdav
Submariners have never been required by any law, treaty, or convention to surface and then rescue anyone from ships or boats they've destroyed. You sound retarded.
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Sean Davis @seanmdav - Submariners have never been required by any law, treaty, or convention to surface and then rescue anyone from ships or boats theyve destroyed. You sound retarded.
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Council Estate Media @cem_uk_
Under the Geneva Conventions, you are required to rescue the crew of a ship that you sink during war. To leave them to drown is both illegal and depraved beyond belief. The US military fights with zero morals. It is today's Nazi army.
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