WARSHIP WEDNESDAY, June 16/2021@01:09-READ, CONCERNING THE LARGEST CASUALTIES LOST DURING W.W.II/1939-1945; WITH APPROXIMATELY 9, 600 CASUALTIES…FROM 10, 600 ON BOARD THE MV WILHELM GUSTLOFF, SUNK BY A RUSSIAN SUBMARINE!!!
Note: This SINKING, WAS IN January, 1945…WITH 3 MONTHS AND A WEEK/MAY 8, 1945…V.E.-VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY, AWAY. IN ALL THE W.W.II NAVAL RESEARCH, THAT I HAVE ACCUMULATED, THIS IS THE LARGEST CASUALTY LOSS, IN W.W.II/1939-1945.
Wikipedia, is used at the bottom of Article-as a GREAT SOURCE OF RESEARCH.
ALSO, THERE ARE BOOKS OUT ON THE MV Wilhelm Gustloff; so SEARCH GOOGLE SEARCH and OTHER SEARCH ENGINES, AS WELL!!!
GOOD LUCK, ON YOUR RESEARCH is the REWARD, AND SURF THIS BLOG, AS IT HAS ABOUT 100 SOURCES, OR MORE…LINED IN RED INK!!! THIS IS MY SECOND, OR THIRD RE-POST CONCERNING THIS BLOG!!!
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Yours Aye: Killick Vison…Brian Murza, W.W.II Naval Researcher-Published Author, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilians, German officials and military personnel from Gdynia (Gotenhafen) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate, 9,400 people died, which makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.
Constructed as a cruise ship for the Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) organisation in 1937, she had been requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine (German navy) in 1939. She served as a hospital ship in 1939 and 1940. She was then assigned as a floating barracks for naval personnel in Gdynia (Gotenhafen) before being put into service to transport evacuees in 1945.
Wilhelm Gustloff was constructed by the Blohm & Voss shipyards. Measuring 208.5 m (684 ft 1 in) long by 23.59 m (77 ft 5 in) wide with a capacity of 25,484 gross register…
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