Moments in History Survivor of downed U-boat recalls rescue
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Charles L. Menius, boatswain's mate second class, still has in his records the report of one of Germany's last U-boats that his ship helped sink during World War II.
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On the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a survivor recalls her experiences at the camp.
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Waving a flag made of his clothes, a tsunami victim dressed only in his underwear was rescued after surviving alone for 25 days on a flattened island in India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, authorities said Saturday.
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When Miriam Schmetterling left Poland in  1946, she had no idea if she would ever see her home country  again or meet the people who saved her life during the  Holocaust.
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SLIGO, Ireland - As Denis Lafleur prepared to return to Canada later today, his heart went out to the family of his fallen comrade, who did not survive last week&#39;s fire on their submarine, as well as his fellow crew still at sea.
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Relatives of nearly 200 people who died in a ferry accident off the Belgian coast 20 years ago attended a memorial Tuesday marking the anniversary of the disaster.
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Standing in the hangar bay of this mammoth aircraft carrier, Seaman Joviena Kay looks across the waves toward the devastated coast of Sumatra, remembering a time 13 years ago when she huddled on the same deck with evacuees from another great Asian disaster.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Nearly 41 years ago, Alaskan  Doug McCrae was clinging to a roof with his family as huge  waves of debris-choked water slammed into Seward and other  coastal Alaska towns after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake shook  nearby Prince William Sound.
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Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi drifts in heavy seas Wednesday after losing power due to a fire accident. AFP. DUBLIN  - British tug boats sailed Thursday to join a major rescue operation for a Canadian
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An island resident saw a small plane crash into Lake Erie, rowed his boat out to help and rescued a 7-year-old boy, authorities said. The youngster's father and 9-year-old brother were still missing Tuesday.
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Sago Mine survivor Randal McCloy Jr. spoke with state and federal investigators for the first time Monday, telling them what he can remember about the Jan. 2 explosion and prolonged entrapment that killed 12 co-workers.
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The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in the waning days of World War II results in the greatest maritime disaster in history. Compiled by Tony Long.
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OSWIECIM, Poland  - World leaders and survivors  stopped to remember the horror of the Holocaust on Thursday at  a snow-swept ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 60th  anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
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A major rescue operation is launched off the west of Scotland to assist the crew of a German cargo ship.
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ALMOST four days after being engulfed by a collapsing hill, two-year-old Yuta Minagawa was lifted alive yesterday afternoon from the wreckage of his mother&#39;s car.
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Survivors of a fatal fire on a submarine today spoke of their experience as Canadaâs defence minister said he could not rule out suing the British Government.
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A Sumatran fisherman was discovered barely alive under his beached boat Sunday &#151; the first survivor found in three days &#151; but with tens of thousands still missing in crushed seaside settlements and in the flotsam washing the shores of the Indian Ocean rescuers turned full attention to getting food and water to the living.