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The Shot That Sank Neutral Ireland: The Vanishing of Leukos
The Shot That Sank Neutral Ireland: The Vanishing of Leukos
Neutral Ireland’s safety at sea was shattered by one shot fired at 200 metres from a German U‑boat that left eleven men vanished and only an empty lifeboat found; why did the commander single out the unarmed Irish trawler among six vessels that night? What decision in a warship’s logbook finally answered the families’ decades of silence?
In this episode, we follow the documented trail from the Leukos’s last voyage to the German war diary and Ultra intercepts, laying out what happened on the night of 9 March 1940 and asking why the…
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