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An official ONI casualty-index card describes grounding/constructive total loss on 20 August, later breakage, removal of cargo from the aft section and inability to unload the forward section, and cites NavCom London Secret dispatch 211731 Aug 44 under control NCR 28888.
Claim record CLM-0154 in the public UNEXPLODED archive.
Claim: CLM-0154
An official ONI casualty-index card describes grounding/constructive total loss on 20 August, later breakage, removal of cargo from the aft section and inability to unload the forward section, and cites NavCom London Secret dispatch 211731 Aug 44 under control NCR 28888.
Status: verified | Confidence: high | Date: 1944
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