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	The Diaries of James Chapin: Book 1
		Around Leopoldville we saw, and collected two or three species of lizards, the brown-headed and gray kinds that we saw in Matadi, and also a long, slim brown-backed species, with yellow lines, that would run down into holes in the ground.
		The country near Leopoldville is remarkable for the scarcity of large birds.
		A common form of termite nest at Leopoldville was a mass of dark clay, honey combed by galleries, and set up in a crotch of a tree, frequently a mango.
	diglib1.amnh.org /articles/chapin_diary/book1_july.html (2259 words)

	uboat.net - Articles
		One by one, hundreds of men took their turn to attempt the leap from the Leopoldville to the destroyer; the majority succeeded, but others mistimed their jumps and were crushed to death as the two hulls came together.
		Having learned that the Leopoldville carried troops, but under the impression there were 4000 men aboard, he judged that the escorting destroyers would not have capacity to take off all the men, and thought she should be towed instead.
		Limbor, captain of the Leopoldville, failed to appraise the damage to his vessel, and consequently failed to realize the ship was sinking slowly and could easily have been towed and beached.
	uboat.net /history/leopoldville.htm (4345 words)

	thedailystar.com - Local News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SIDNEY — Joseph Cycon was on his way to France aboard the S.S. Leopoldville on Dec. 24, 1944, when the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine and hundreds of his Army buddies were killed.
		On the Christmas Eve that Cycon was headed to Cherbourg, France, aboard the Leopoldville, he and the other infantrymen tried to pass the time by singing Christmas carols, his wife said.
		Her husband played his harmonica for a while, but the combination of the ship's poor quality of food and swaying motion eventually got to him and he headed upward, toward the main deck of the ship, to get some air.
	www.thedailystar.com /news/stories/1998/03/27/honor.html (695 words)

	Leopoldville Memorial - Veterans Park - Titusville Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The ship and the division she was transporting was sunk off the coast of Cherbourg France while on the way to relieve the troops at the battle of Bastogne.
		Within five and a half miles from shore, the Leopoldville was struck by a torpedo fired by U-boat 486.
		The Leopoldville disaster was the worst tragedy to ever befall an American Infantry Division as a result of an enemy submarine attack.
	www.nbbd.com /godo/VeteransMemorial/leopoldville (291 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The letters which must be registered at Leopoldville for international destination, are generally (3) franked with sufficient postage which was applied by the sender and sometimes with the notation “to be registered at Leopoldville”.
		It arrived at Leopoldville on October 24th, where the “enregistré” was cancelled with pen and registration number 1924 was allied.
		It arrived at Leopoldville on October 13th, where the “enregistré” was cancelled with pen and registration number 1810 was applied.
	users.skynet.be /lindekens/bulletins/128.htm (2078 words)

	AWON Fathers/BAKER Page
		The S. Leopoldville was carrying more than 2,200 American soldiers from the 66th "Panther" Division, across the English channel as reinforcements to fight in the Battle of the Bulge.
		Because of wartime censorship, the disaster was not reported to the news media and all reports of the disaster were filed away as top secret by the American, the British and the Belgian governments.
		Because the sinking of the ship was kept secret by our government, as well as the British and the Belgian governments, for so many years, I didn't learn what happened until 1977 and it was 1997 before I learned most of the details surrounding the event.
	www.awon.org /awbaker.html (1002 words)

	Historic Sea Hunt -- Clive Cussler Finds Troopship & Lusitania Sub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Denied permission by the French government to search for the Leopoldville, because the area near Cherbourg is used to test nuclear submarines, Cussler and his crew went ahead anyway.
		The Leopoldville, a Belgian ship transporting 2,200 troops of the U.S. Army's 66th Infantry division, embarked from Southampton, England, on Christmas Eve 1944 carrying reinforcements for the Battle of the Bulge.
		Encyclopedias yield no mention of the Leopoldville, and Roderick Engert, chief of the Army's historical reference branch, couldn't find it in the standard military reference books--only in the archives of the 66th division.
	www.cdjewell.net /leopold.htm (1141 words)

	The Diaries of James Chapin: Book 1
		From Malherbe's description of this sex, it would appear to differ from the male mainly in the absence of red on the head, the whole of the top of the head being brown slightly washed with olive.
		All afternoon, after leaving Freetown, the Leopoldville was followed by some 6 or 8 petrels (Oceanites?).
		There was a strong wind blowing, and the fish came with the wind, striking a cable when about three fourths of the way across, and falling over the side into the sea again.
	diglib1.amnh.org /articles/chapin_diary/book1_june.html (5555 words)

	History Channel Exhibits: COVER-UP! The Sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville
		On December 24, 1944, almost 800 American soldiers lost their lives when the troopship S.S. Leopoldville was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of France.
		Incredibly, the tragic story of the Leopoldville was kept secret by the U.S. and British governments.
		It took over fifty years for a monument to be built in honor of the lost men, and still the U.S. government does not officially recognize that the incident occurred.
	www.historychannel.com /exhibits/leopoldville (186 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - The Sinking of the Leopoldville. - A1112842
		H.M.S. Brilliant then signaled the Troopship Leopoldville and the other vessels to commenence zagging, a command that had never before been given to the Leopoldville during a Channel crossing, but which seemed advisable due to recent increased submarine activity.
		The Leopoldville was transporting American soldiers across the channel to re-enforce the troops at the Battle of the Bulge, so we were told.
		Having taken on about 500 men, we had to pull away from the Leopoldville as there was only a few inches of free board.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1112842 (796 words)

	History Channel Exhibits: COVER-UP! The Sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On Christmas Eve 1944, the Belgian troopship Leopoldville was transporting 2,235 American soldiers, all from the 262nd and 264th Regiment, 66th Infantry Division across the English Channel as reinforcements to fight in a fierce struggle that would become known as the Battle of the Bulge.
		The Leopoldville was protected by escort ships, including the British Destroyer Brilliant, but no air cover was made available even though the threat of attack by German submarines was high.
		Yet, this is more than a story about a terrible wartime tragedy, it is about how governments, in order to hide their own mistakes, can hide the truth from those who need it the most.
	www.historychannel.com /exhibits/leopoldville/story.html (582 words)

	Selections from the book.
		Many of the stories have similar patterns: from those who jumped to the deck of the British destroyer "Brilliant", or from other G.I.s who went in the water and were picked up by tugboats or other rescuing vessels.
		He came aboard the Leopoldville with the Company payroll in a pouch around his neck.
		Colonel Ira Rumberg, Battalion Commander, 264th Regiment was a great hero aboard the Leopoldville, as testified by at least ten troopers that have told about his exploits.
	members.aol.com /rayandlu/book.html (1086 words)

	Other Disasters - Leopoldville
		To date, the Leopoldville had already carried nearly 125,000 soldiers to various destinations without trouble and, because of there being so many Allied warships in the Channel, no one seemed too worried about the possibility of submarine attacks.
		By 4 PM, the sea had reached a state of Force 6 and the Leopoldville was but 25 miles from their point of destination, the port of Cherbourg.
		Officers onboard the other troopship in the convoy, the Cheshire thought they had heard a muffled explosion and actually saw the debacle onboard the Leopoldville but, there having been no radio traffic calling for assistance, they were left in the dark as to what was actually taking place.
	www.compunews.com /gus/leopold.htm (733 words)

	Veterans Day: Shipmates share story of Leopoldville sinking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Leopoldville was packed with American troops from the 262nd and 264th Regiments of the 66th Infantry, some 2,235 men.
		The Leopoldville remained afloat for little more than 2 hours before it sank in the English Channel.
		Though the Leopoldville was only a few miles from France, rescue calls went to England, where the ship pulled from port.
	www.vvdailypress.com /2001-2003/100553364356609.html (803 words)

	The Body: When Did AIDS Begin?
		The year was 1959, location: The central African city of Leopoldville, now called Kinshasa, shortly before the waves of violent rebellion that followed the liberation of the Belgian Congo.
		The Leopoldville sample is the oldest specimen of the AIDS virus ever isolated and may now help solve the mystery of how and when the virus made the leap from animals (monkeys or chimpanzees) to humans, according to a report published last week in Nature.
		But they couldn't tell whether they were seeing variations on one changeable virus or the handiwork of several different viruses that had made the jump from primates to man. A look at the genetic mutations in the Leopoldville sample strongly suggests that all it took to launch the epidemic was one unlucky turn of events.
	www.thebody.com /wa/spring98/begin.html (508 words)

	GI spared a deadly WWII ordeal \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The men, part of the 66th Black Panther Infantry Division, were on their way to Cherbourg, France, to reinforce troops in the Battle of the Bulge.
		On Dec. 24, the Leopoldville and the Cheshire were nestled close to each other off the docks of Southampton, England.
		They were five miles from Cherbourg when the Leopoldville was hit just before 6 p.m.
	www.azstarnet.com /dailystar/printSN/2667.php (621 words)

	Dragon operations: hostage rescues in the Congo, 1964-1965
		Moreover, Tshombe was in contact with the CNL and Adoula's rivals inside the Leopoldville government and still had a private army waiting across the border in Angola.
		Teller arrived in Leopoldville with two passengers, G. Mennen Williams and William E. Lang, the deputy assistant secretary for Africa in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
		The Western belief that the meeting would disassociate their military support of Leopoldville from the overall context of the African political scene was in error.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/odom/odom.asp (18120 words)

	CONGO SHIPPING
		The British recruited their porters locally which saved them lots of time and the boat was divided in smaller sections, most of which could be carried by the porters and not on heavy carts.
		There was no railway connection yet from the rivermouth till Leopoldville, so every piece of machinery and the heavy ship's sections were carried by man and animal to it's destination.
		When the railway to Leopoldville was finished March 16, 1898 larger ships became necessary to carry the goods upstream.
	users.telenet.be /urbiehome/Congoship.html (2468 words)

	AII POW-MIA InterNetwork
		The sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville was the second worst maritime disaster of the war for the United States in terms of casualties.
		He saw the Leopoldville's decks jammed with hundreds of men, many of them praying, all of them terrified.
		He recognized the names of four of the men interviewed and learned for the first time the name of the hospital where he was taken in France.
	www.aiipowmia.com /inter23/in100803ww2ship.html (1601 words)

	U.N. Force Due in Congo; Disorders Continue There
		Belgian paratroopers occupied key positions in the European part of Leopoldville this morning, against bitter objections by the Congo Government.
		At Bona Imponga, 150 miles west of Leopoldville, seven missionaries and eleven children were molested this morning.
		In African quarters of Leopoldville the Congolese turned against their own ministers to vent their anger over the Belgian intervention.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/africa/600715unforce.html (1141 words)

	AII POW-MIA InterNetwork
		The Leopoldville's sinking is a woeful tale that has only come to full light in the past decade as the British government declassified documents related to the incident and the History Channel aired a painstaking documentary explaining what happened that night.
		When the escorts filled up, those remaining aboard the Leopoldville were left to their own devices.
		But the Leopoldville's captain had dropped its anchor after the boat was hit.
	www.aiipowmia.com /inter23/in291103medals.html (1131 words)

	Passed House Resolution 0026
		Whereas, The Leopoldville was protected by escort ships, including a British destroyer, the HMS Brilliant, but was not given air protection even though the threat of attack by German submarines was very high;
		That the Indiana General Assembly believes it is fitting and proper that these brave men and their families be accorded the recognition and homage due to fallen war heroes.
		That the Principal Clerk of the House of Representatives transmit a copy of this resolution to the families of each of the 28 Hoosiers killed on the Leopoldville.
	www.state.in.us /legislative/bills/2000/HRESP/HC0026.html (469 words)

	What tree saved soldiers in the English Channel? - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The S.S. Leopoldville, Belgium registry, was part of a convoy of ships under British command.
		In the early hours of the previous day, the men were ordered to dump the straw from their mattresses.
		"Survivors of the Leopoldville Disaster" has more information about the sinking of the ship which was covered-up by the U.S. and Britain for fifty years.
	www.killerplants.com /plants-that-changed-history/20021224.asp (851 words)

	WHAT IS THE TIME? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	What is the time? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	DefenseLINK News: Survivors Remember 60-Year-Old Tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Belgian ship SS Leopoldville, on its 25th crossing of the channel as a troop transport, was within sight of the lights of Cherbourg -- only five and a half miles from safe harbor -- when disaster in the form of a German U-boat struck.
		Carmella LaSpada, executive director of the commission, told the audience her organization got involved when she met a woman at a charity function in Philadelphia two years ago and was asked when she was going to do something about the Leopoldville disaster.
		Andrade, a former New York City lieutenant of detectives, helped to unravel the mystery in his 1997 book, "The SS Leopoldville Disaster Dec. 24, 1944." The former internal affairs investigator had seen references to the Leopoldville while researching another matter.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Dec2004/n12212004_2004122104.html (879 words)

	Interview with Sir Brian Urquhart - p. 6 of 8
		Bunche was in Leopoldville where he'd been for the independence ceremonies, and stayed on because he thought it was all going to go wrong.
		I went there at three hours notice the day the thing was decided on, and I was under the impression that the Congo was on the Indian Ocean.
		I'd never been to Africa before except for North Africa during the war, and I was much surprised when I got to Leopoldville to discover it was on the Atlantic.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /UN/Urquhart/urquhart6.html (1730 words)

	95/01/13 Foreign Relations, 1961-63, Vol. XX, Congo Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		CIA representatives in Leopoldville had been aware, however, of Congolese plans to move Lumumba to Bakwanga in Kasai, where he almost certainly would have met a similar fate.
		The period of hostility between the Congolese Government and the U.N. Command led to a brief rapprochement between Leopoldville and Elisabethville, but an April meeting in Coquilhatville of central government and provincial leaders brought an impasse, which culminated with Leopoldville authorities putting Tshombe under house arrest for 2 months.
		Leopoldville and Stanleyville reached agreement in June to convene Parliament at the University of Lovanium near Leopoldville under U.N. protection.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/frus/summaries/950113_FRUS_XX_1961-63.html (6841 words)

	My Father's Wartime Service in Europe -- A Biographical Letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		S.S. Leopoldville when the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine a few miles off Cherbourg.
		Because the sinking by a German U-boat of the transport ship SS Leopoldville decimated the division, it was diverted instead to the relatively quiet sector in Brittany, replacing the 94th Division there.
		In June 2002 a friend in England sent me a detailed account of the Leopoldville sinking written by one Tonya Allen, whose great-uncle was killed in that tragedy.
	www.cdjewell.net /letter.htm (1735 words)

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