Historical Deaths That Read Like Crazy Myths (But Aren’t)↓Continue Reading Below. According to eyewitness accounts from the sinking, Guggenheim and Giglio were last seen relaxing in deckchairs, knocking back brandies and smoking fat cigars. Within hours, the ship was on the bottom of the ocean, though it might have lasted longer if Guggenheim, Giglio, and Father Thomas Byles weren't weighing the craft down with their gargantuan balls. Speaking of sinking ships .. Ordinary seaman Edward Sheean died when he was just 1. During World War II, Sheean was serving aboard the HMAS Armidale, an Australian corvette ship tasked with carrying reinforcements and supplies to Timor.

The ship was spotted by Japanese aircraft, which began to attack it. Two torpedo hits later, the ship was doomed.↓Continue Reading Below. Sheean didn't have much training for what to do next, or really much training at all.

He was an teenaged volunteer; most of his "training" was what he managed to gather watching veterans on his assignment. Also, he'd already been wounded twice when he heard the order to abandon ship. The young man delivered his rebuttal in the form of a storm of fury, bringing down two, possibly even three, of the Japanese bombers by himself while the sea roiled around him. Watch Crimson Force 4Shared. And finally above him. US Navy. We're no longer sure that "ordinary seaman" is really the best descriptor here.

That's a painting - - probably not painted contemporaneously - - of Sheean after he'd strapped himself to his weapon, which was itself bolted to a sinking ship. This wasn't just bloodlust; he was reacting to an atrocity. The survivors in the water were being shot from the air by the Japanese. It's quite possible that it was thanks to his efforts, there were 4. The gun was still firing when it finally slipped beneath the waves.↓Continue Reading Below.

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