Still Waters Posted February 18, 2021 #1 Share Posted February 18, 2021 The fragments of a 1941 love letter to a woman named Iris, found nearly three miles under the ocean in a shipwreck, have been painstakingly pieced together by experts, 80 years after it was posted. “Look after yourself my darling, not only for your own sake …….. for mine also,” wrote the unknown serviceman stationed in the Waziristan region, now part of Pakistan. “Imagine that I have my lips tight against yours with my arms around you tight … let us hope that this bloody war will soon be over.” The letter is one of 717 that were never delivered by the cargo ship, the SS Gairsoppa, which was destined for the US. The ship was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland by a German U-boat on 16 February 1941. Of the 86 crew on board, only one survived. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/18/poignant-letters-salvaged-from-1941-shipwreck-ss-gairsoppa 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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