| SIDI-BEL-ABBES (April 20, 1943)
French steamship of 4,392 tons torpedoed and sunk by the U-565 near Oran about ten miles north of the Habibas Islands. On board were some 1,130 Senegalese troops being transported from Casablanca to Oran. A total of 611 lives were lost, 520 being rescued by British naval escorts.
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
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