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On Mon. 18 may 1942 Soviet submarine ShCh-205 sank Turkish ship Duatep.....

1942-05-18

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Soviet submarine ShCh-205 sank Turkish ship Duatepe with torpedoes and schooner Kaynardzha with the deck gun 10 miles off Bulgaria; these ships were suspected of smuggling weapons to southern Ukraine for German forces.

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