Heroic Sailors (Colour Litho)

Heroic sailors. The commander of a small torpedo boat without armor faces in the Sicilian Channel a cruiser that is part of an enemy team, torpedo it at a short distance and sinks it. But as the opposing large ship sinks, other English ships pull on the torpedo boat, which is shot to death. Under fire the Italian commander does not leave his post, another torpedo boat rushes to the rescue and he shouts through the megaphone, I torpedoed a cruiser, save my men! And he stays on the sinking ship. Many hours later he will be found still alive, clinging to a wreck. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 20 October 1940.