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| Picture No | 10652387 |
| Date | January 1940 |
| Description | The Croxton outrage by G. H. Davis |
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One of several German attacks on North Sea fishing trawlers, later countered by arming them: the Croxton outrage. How the unarmed Croxton was machine-gunned and bombed until she sank. The Germans used a favourite manoeuvre, explained in the diagram inset (top right), in this infamous attack.
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| Source | Illustration by George Horace Davis in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 2 March 1940, pp264-5 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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