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Loral IMaii Aids in I Kilning ISa/i Plane* Attacking FreighterAvoiding torpedo** on a whipthat whot down thrww n«*i plane* and *l wwwiwt in blasting a fourth wer^ ait in a dnvs work for MaxV Hotopp, Lt. Com., I SMS, of 1402E. who wfti chief officer on * freighter which haw been nicknamed The Battleship.According to a story in the Philadelphia Bulletin, The Battleshipn I ,ibe» t v ' pe freightcr, who earned her nickname in a 8f minute encounter with nine nasi JP48 torpedo hombere in a fierce at niggle in the Mediterranean last March,The merchant vessel was traveling with a convoy when nine torpedo bombers approached the leftside of the vessel with one airshipcomtng directly toward the stern, heading between the merchant vessel and the adjoining ship.Assuming that the plane approaching the reir had evidentlytorpedoed another ship in the con-- v » w mvi • ’ ium nt u • Tf n i nr iof the ,rmy airforces it her ShortHIII*. N. J., home Mil, Mc.nner* ha* appeared Ir opera and on concert stage*throughout the nation. Lt. Walkera n«ph«w of George and the late Jacob Ruppert. was associated with the Ruppert breweriea before entering the armed forces He wasgraduated from Cornell Univarsity. |voy already and waa attempting to escape, a merchantman shot theplane lt;Vwn, while on the other side the seamen downed two bombers and crippled a third, making it easy prey for the English guns which brought it down.The captain and his officers, of whom Lt. Com Hotopp was chief. ,were given credit by the men for maneuvering the ship ao that the . torpedoes missed them. j! For her accomplishment, the ship now carries three swastikas painted on her atack. Her battles continued following sir bomhardment, as shesaw action the following night when a submarine attacked the convoy. Since then the boat hasbeen in at least three other air raids and has seen a U-boat upended by depth chargee from an accompanying vessel. j
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Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas, US
Wed, Jan 05, 1944
Page 9
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Joseph H.
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