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A Sailor Plugged a Torpedo Hole With His Body #short #history #ww2

North Atlantic, March 1943. USS Ortolan took a German torpedo below the waterline. The fragment ripped a hole the size of a basketball. Petty Officer James Caldwell wedged his back against it. Ice water pinned him from chest to neck. He held nine hours straight while welders worked around him. His ribs cracked from pressure. He never made a sound. Caldwell died from internal bleeding two days later. The ship reached Iceland. Forty-three men survived because one sailor never moved.

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