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English: Excerpt from the war diary of the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Ahrens (DE-575) for 29 May 1944, describing the torpedoeing of the escort carrier USS Block Island (CVE-21) and the subsequent sinking of the German submarine U-549.
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