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Laconia incident
The Laconia incident was an incident during World War II in September 1942 when RMS Laconia, carrying some 80 civilians and 268 British Army soldiers, and about 1,800 Italian prisoners of war with 160 Polish soldiers on guard, was struck by a torpedo from a Kriegsmarine U-boat off the coast of west Africa and sank. The U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Werner Hartenstein, realized the error and commenced rescue operations, joined by other U-boats.
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