MaylO JvLars number of American and British prisoners of war went through ''three day and nights of heir aboard an Italian ahlp subjected to ' pounding Allied aerial attack' off the Tunisian coast, but.
The War Department releasing a report from North Africa attesting to the great destructiveness and deadly accuracy" of Allied bombing, quoted a British lieutenant's story of -the attack on the prison ship which had left Tunis harbor for Italy with a destroyer escort i The destroyer, however, was sunk by bombers, and the crew refused to make the run to Sicily.
Then we went through three days and nights of helL We were bombed and strafed more than half a dozen times by our own aircraft. The pilots had no way of knowing that there were British and American prisoners on board, though later we did try to put some Identification signs on fhe deck but they did not.
Bomhs fell. One bomb hit the side and left us with a list Thera was one direct hit, but fortunately with only a small bomb and only superficial damage resulted. It was a miracle that the ship was not sunk. She would had she not run aground. The rest of us had to suffer another night of bombing : and some more next day. The air attack was terrible. I would not go through It.
There were no sanitary arrangements and wa had little food. The thing was a nightmare. We thought tho casualties must ba enormous by a miracle they wen not.
