Brice Yokem wrote:
> As far as your submarine/torpedo example is concerned, read about
> the 'Laconia incident' and see how the UN handled that.

I lloked it up in wikipedia, but I don't understand what point you were 
trying to make.

Since the UN wasn't around in 1943 they probably didn't do much about it. 
According to wikipedia the German U-Boat was picking up survivors after 
sinking the Laconia:

"At 6am on September 13 Hartenstein broadcast a message on the 25-meter band 
in plain English to all shipping in the area giving his position, requesting 
assistance with the rescue effort and promising not to attack. It read:

"If any ship will assist the ship-wrecked "Laconia" crew, I will not attack 
providing I am not being attacked by ship or air forces. I picked up 193 
men. 4, 53 South, 11, 26 West. --German submarine.

"U-156 remained on the surface at the scene for the next two and a half 
days. At 11:30am on September 15, she was joined by U-506 commanded by 
Kptlt. Erich Würdemann and a few hours later by both U-507 under 
Korvettenkapitän Harro Schacht and the Italian submarine Cappellini. The 
four submarines with lifeboats in tow and hundreds of survivors standing on 
the hulls headed towards the African coastline and a rendezvous with Vichy 
French surface warships which had set out from Senegal and Dahomey.

"The next morning, September 16, at 11:25am, the four submarines, with Red 
Cross flags draped across their gun decks, were spotted by an American B-24 
Liberator bomber from Ascension Island. Hartenstein signalled to the pilot 
requesting assistance. Lieutenant James D. Harden of the U.S. Army Air Force 
turned away and notified his base of the situation. The senior officer on 
duty that day, Captain Robert C. Richardson III, replied with the order 
"Sink sub."

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The bombers attacked and the submarines dived and escaped. Many of the 
Laconia survivors perished. Until then it was common for U-boats to assist 
torpedoed survivors with food, water and directions to the nearest land. Now 
that it was apparent that the Americans would attack rescue missions under 
the Red Cross flag, Dönitz ordered that rescues were prohibited; survivors 
were to be left in the sea.

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