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Leutnant Wilhem Zahn in German...

history · 30 October 1939 · 85 years ago

Leutnant Wilhem Zahn in German submarine U-56 fired three torpedoes at the battleship HMS Nelson off the Orkney Islands in Scotland, United Kingdom. Two of the torpedoes hit home but fortunately both proved to be duds. 

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