Heroic work saves HMS Thrasher from oblivion

16th February 1942: Two submariners awarded Victoria Cross after removing bombs jammed into the outer casing of their submarine

HMS Thrasher in 1940. She survived the exceptionally hazardous Mediterranean war and went on to successful operations in the Far East, sinking over 20,000 tons of Japanese shipping.

On 16 February 1942 north of Crete, in the Mediterranean, HM Submarine Thrasher, after attacking and sinking a supply ship, was itself attacked:

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