Talk:Anthony Miers
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[edit] Image atributation
(Submitted by Antoni Chmielowski, 5 Dec 2000) moved from article. SeventyThree(Talk) 18:08, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] War Crime Allegation
Does anyone have any information to support or disprove the following alligation?
http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?threadID=600011398&start=0
In June 1941, HM Submarine 'Torbay' based in Alexandria , Egypt, and which played a key role in attacking Axis supply ships en route for North Africa, was detached to fulfil a mission involving dropping Royal Marine Commandoes for a raid on Crete. The sub was commanded by Lt-Commander Anthony Miers-who would later win the V.C. for his Med based Axis ship sinking exploits. Meirs caught up with three German boats(Caiques) carrying German Gebirge (Mountain troops)back on leave to Athens, Greece. Seven of these Bavarian Alpine troops were first taken on board the sub, stripped of their Nazi badges and insignia, stuck on a rubber dinghy then on Meirs VC's orders machine gunned with a Lewis gun by one of the sub's signalmen-remarkably two survived, albeit being seriously wounded. The Captian of the small boat survived by claiming he was Greek(he was, in fact,a German-Fritz Elebacht)
A fuller account of this and four other naval war crimes-two British- two German-can be found in Ludovic Kennedy(a WW2 naval officer and naval historian) 's book 'Truth to Tell'published by 'Black Swan' Books(a division of Bantam Books) in London, England, in 1992.See Page 153 onwards -the Chapter entitled 'Four Naval Atrocities'. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ANTIcarrot (talk • contribs) 22:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC).
