Worst US troopship disaster
26th November 1943: The HMT Rohna is hit by a German glider bomb - and over half of the US Army troops on board do not survive
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The worst troopship disaster to befall the U.S. happened on the 26th November 1943 - when German planes made a concerted attack on a military convoy in the Mediterranean. A force of 30 He-177 planes, the much delayed German long-range bomber, released 60 glider bombs at the ships but only succeeded in making one strike.
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