SURVIVORS RE-UNION
INVITE A FORMER ENEMY. Fifteen years ago on February 4 the troopship Tuscanda, with 3000 American soldiers aboard, sank in the Irish Sea from a torpedq fired by a German submarine. Two hundred veterans among th'ose who -survived that disaster and. went on to survive the battlefields of France, met at this year's anniversax^y, and talked it ovei*, and the following day they dropped a wreath on Lake Michigan in memory of the 255 who drowned. The Tuscania was the only United States troopship sunk in the World War, but the -survivors bear no dll will. The Survivors' Association even invited Dr. William Meyer, commander of the German U-boat that sank the Tuscania, to attend their reunion, but ha was unable to accept,
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 593, 26 July 1933, Page 6
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125SURVIVORS RE-UNION Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 593, 26 July 1933, Page 6
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