AXIS HONOURS
CONFERRED ON SUBMARINE COMMANDER. FOR IMAGINARY SINKING OF BATTLESHIPS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, October 30. A typical example o£ false enemy claims has been exposed in naval quarters in London. On May 20, Commander Enzio Grossi, captain of an Italian submarine, claimed to have sunk an American battleship of the Maryland class on the Brazilian coast. The claim proved to be totally imaginary; his actual victim being a British freighter, but Hitler awarded him the Iron Cross and Mussolini also bestowed a decoration. On October 6. the same submarine commander claimed to have sunk, with four torpedoes, an American battleship of the Mississippi class, 300 miles south-west ot Freetown. For this exploit Hitler awarded him the Grand Cross of the Jron Cross, but the only truth contained in this report was that the British corvette Petunia later announced having been missed by four torpedoes from a submarine on that day.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1942, Page 2
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