My grand father was a Schutterij, Stamboeknummer 4052
Submarine attacks
During WW2 more than 3000 merchant vessels were attacked by German U-boats. After the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, unrestricted submarine warfare broke out in the Caribbean Sea and surrounding waters. Many Allied merchant ships fell victim to torpedoes and grenades of German submarines. On our islands a number of foreign seamen were buried who were victims of those attacks.
27 July 1943
Attack by German submarine U-615 on tanker ROSALIA (CSM). 23 crew members die. The submarine manages to evade the Allied ships and aircraft at first but is sunk a few days later after continuous attacks by patrol aircrafts.
