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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sandpatch" data-source="post: 273031" data-attributes="member: 10543">Under the heading of irony came another example last night when I was looking on line at a great many old and mostly unseen railroad photographs.  To a fan, the images are stunning in their subject matter.  Many were taken in the 1930s and one features an ocean freighter at a North Carolina port with a caption reading simply "Loading scrap for Japan".  Who knew?I did some research and found that the freighter was sunk years later in 1942 by a German U-Boat with all hands lost while in a convoy from New York to Murmansk.  The U-Boat was in turn sunk with all hands lost in 1943.</blockquote>