2,000 US soldiers board a British transport ship without any idea that the lifeboats are rusted so badly that they could | dG1fWnptNTFQSFdiQk0
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:04 >> Rona, sunk by German Air Force, sworn to secrecy.
00:09 Hitler unleashes his secret weapon.
00:11 >> You will be subject to court martial.
00:13 >> Deadliest sea disaster in the history of US war.
00:17 >> This whole incident is classified secret.
00:19 [MUSIC]
00:23 >> One night we were watching television and it was a war story and
00:28 it was a ship that was going down and my husband was crying.
00:32 And I said, Fred, it's just a story.
00:35 He said, but that happened to me.
00:37 That's how I found out about the Rona.
00:40 He told me the whole story and told me that I could not repeat it.
00:48 >> Never before seen radio guided missile technology.
00:51 Leading missile scientists smuggled out of Germany.
00:56 1,000 Gold Star families stonewalled.
00:59 >> You can't ever make up for all of these years that the parents just had no idea
01:05 what became of their boys.
01:07 [MUSIC]
01:10 >> Losing 1,000 people, how could you cover that up?
01:13 But they did.
01:14 [MUSIC]
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