Monday, Feb. 28, 1944

Worst

With around 4,000,000 troops safely overseas, the U.S. suffered its worst transport disaster of World War II. Last week the Army announced in a detail-bare communique that 1,000 U.S. soldiers had died in the sinking of an Allied ship in European waters "due to enemy action ... at night in a heavy sea."

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