Unit 3.8 - Advent to Christmas: A Time for Responding in Love

But one amazing troop ship sinking in the area on Christmas Eve 1944 has to rank as one of WW2’s worst in terms of loss of life, and most horribly, the lack of planning and emergency preparation, poor communications, and some of the downright worst nautical emergency decisions ever made. Almost 800 Americans would die, many in 48 degree water. ................
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