| KONRON MARU (October 5, 1943)
Japanese transport sunk by the US submarine USS Wahoo while ferrying troops across the Tsushima Strait. On board the Konron Maru (Formally of the Shimonoseki-to-Fusan Ferry Line) were 616 troops and crew of which only 72 were rescued from the heavy seas. (Six days later (October 11) the Wahoo was sunk with all hands by Japanese naval aircraft in the La Perouse Strait)
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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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