A Soldier Given Only a Spear Blew Up a Nazi Ship with a Milk Tin
13,399Job Maseko's bravery knew no bounds.
While imprisoned after the fall of Tobruk in 1942, the member of South Africa's Native military Corps and his fellow black comrades received inhumane treatment.
Still, determined to help the Allied fight against the Axis powers, Maseko took matters into his own hands and made a bomb out of a milk tin and other objects he could find.
Then, after asking his friends to look out for him, Maseko boarded a German freight ship and placed the handmade item near the fuel barrels, lit the fuse, and walked back to his work spot before anyone could spot him.
Little did the South African soldier know what the ship carried and the role this brave act would have in the war…
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