FROZEN TO DEATH
VICTIMS OFI U-BOATSi AWFUL ATLANTIC SPECTACLE (Rec. 12.25.) NEW YORK, Feb. 23. “I will never forget it as long as I live.” said a Navy signalman, Robert Weikart, whose vessel was the first to reach the area where 850 people perished as the result of the submarine action against two American ships in the North Atlantic earlier this month. Weikart said: “I wondered why survivors were not picked up. We passed close by one lifeboat. It was full of people. There were men at the oars, but it. was not moving. “Then it dawned on me that they had been, frozen to death. I saw the sea dotted with bobbing heads in life jackets. There were hundreds of them. 1 cannot say how long they were in the icy water. The attack must have been a complete surprise, as many of the bodies were undressed.”
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Grey River Argus, 25 February 1943, Page 4
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