On Sat. 24 may 1941 British Lieutenant Commander Malcolm Wanklyn of th.....
British Lieutenant Commander Malcolm Wanklyn of the submarine HMS Upholder won the Victoria Cross for sinking an Italian transport off Sicily, Italy and surviving 37 depth charges in 20 minutes. By the end of the year he had sunk 140,000 tons of enemy shipping. Wanklyn and Upholder were lost off Tripoli in Apr 1942.
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