In 1944, Kriegsmarine Captain Heinz-Wilhelm Eck ordered the shooting of shipwrecked survivors at sea after his U-boat sank SS Peleus.
In 1945, he was charged with war crimes at the extension of the Nuremberg trials in Hamburg.
He was found guilty and executed by firing squad.
During World War II a Dutch minesweeper evaded the Japanese for eight days disguised as an island. The crew covered the decks in cut trees and painted exposed surfaces to look like rocks. They moved only at night and anchored close to shore by day, eventually escaping to Australia.
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