The Christmas and other holiday festivities of over 2,000 American soldiers were silenced by a German torpedo that sent their ship, the S.S. Leopoldville, plunging into the icy English Channel Dec. 24 ...
On Christmas Eve 1944, the troop ship SS Léopoldville was torpedoed by a German U-boat while crossing the English Channel to France. Nearly 800... 'The Silent Soldier' Tells One Veteran's Story Of ...