LIGHTED HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK
Off Coast Of Sicily (Received August 10, 11.30 p.m.) •LONDON, August 10., The sinking of the British hospifal ship Talamba by a Gorman air squadron two miles south of Syracuse, Sicily, was reported in a delayed dispatch from an Associated Press correspondent aboard a British cruiser. The Talamba went down with nurses, wounded and the crew crying out in the darkness for help. Several ships went alongside for rescue operations in spite of a continued threat from the air. The Talamba, in compliance with in ternational law, was brilliantly lighted. With two other hospital ships, she had spent (he afternoon unmolested picking up wounded from Sicily, but at 10 p.m. a formation of German planes flew over and dived straight for the Talamba and released their bombs. The other hospital ships extinguished their lights when they saw the Talamba’s fate.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 271, 11 August 1943, Page 5
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