HMT Rohna
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HMT Rohna was a British India Steam Navigation Company passenger and cargo liner that was built on Tyneside in 1926 as SS Rohna and requisitioned as a troop ship in 1940. Rohna was sunk in the Mediter
Troopship, the HMT Rohna
Henschel Hs 293 radio-guided glide bomb
The minesweeper USS Pioneer rescued 602 survivors
The destroyer HMS Atherstone provided anti-aircraft cover and then rescued about 70 survivors
Henschel Hs 293
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The Henschel Hs 293 was a World War II German radio-guided glide bomb. It is the first operational anti-shipping missile, first used unsuccessfully on 25 August 1943 and then with increasing success o
HMT Rohna
…Rohna and requisitioned as a troop ship in 1940. ("HMT" stands for His Majesty's Transport.) Rohna was sunk in the Mediterranean in November 1943 by a Henschel Hs 293 guided glide bomb launched by a Luftwaffe aircraft. More than 1,100 people were killed, most of whom were US troops. In 1925, British India Line ordered…
Hs 293 on display at the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin, Germany, with added "Kopfring" (lit. "head ring") on the nose for nautical targets
The Walter 109-507 rocket motor unit with propellant tanks, removed from its nacelle under the Hs 293
An Hs 293 A-1 on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center