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Leaning over a white picket fence 

 surrounding the British Cemetery, Ballance 

 points to four simple gravestones. Then he 

 recounts his kinfolks' tales of the victims. 



"My relatives used to tell stories about 

 hearing torpedoes go off, and the Coast Guard 

 crew bringing in the bodies of these British 

 soldiers," says Ballance, author of Ocracokers. 

 "The sailors' bodies were washed up on the 

 beach and buried by locals in simple coffins." 



A torpedo from a German submarine 

 killed the soldiers stationed on the trawler 

 HM.S. Bedfordshire on May 7, 1942. The 

 soldiers were guarding the coast from deadly 

 U-boats unleashed by Adolph Hider. 



Continued 



COASTWATCH 



