When France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 there was a rush to evacuate out of France. Among the refugees on the VILLE DE LIEGE was the mayor of Bordeaux. When Captain Jorgensen next returned to that port on the PIONEER COVE fifteen years later he was afforded a hero's welcome. Coincidentally, Capt. Don who related the original story was himself a fifteen year old Dutch boy on a grain ship from Argentina also anchored at the mouth of the Gironde River and witnessed the Luftwaffe bombing on the vessels around the same time. Three decades later he replaced Capt Jorgensen on the PIONEER COVE. Bill Stern could not have written a more gripping story.
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