Altmark incident
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title:
Altmark incident
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The Altmark incident was a naval incident of World War II between British destroyers and the German tanker Altmark, which happened on 16–17 February 1940. It took place in what were neutral Norwegian waters. On board the Altmark were roughly 300 Allied prisoners, whose ships had been sunk by the pocket battleship Graf Spee in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. British naval forces cornered the tanker, and later the destroyer HMS Cossack boarded the Altmark near the Jøssingfjord and liberated all the p
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WWII incident between British and German ships
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmark_incident
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2024-02-16T22:51:22Z
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