- Contributed by
- Dave Thacker
- People in story:
- Leonard Stanley Thacker
- Location of story:
- Bari, Italy.
- Background to story:
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:
- A6227264
- Contributed on:
- 20 October 2005
View on Thruster of lorries being reversed into the lift to be lowered to the tank deck for off-loading.
This story is submitted to the People's War Website by David Thacker, a volunteer from BBC Radio Northampton, on behalf of his Mother, Isabella, wife of the late Len Thacker, and has been added to the site with her permission. She fully understands and accepts the site's terms and conditions.
Len related how on 9.4.1945, Thruster was the nearest ship to the USS Liberty, and was about to go alongside in Bari Harbour, Italy. Liberty, carrying ammunition, went up in a huge explosion killing hundreds of people and setting numerous ships on fire in the harbour. Somehow Thruster was unscathed but the crew were much shaken.
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