Person:Harry Cahill (1)

_DCAUSE: 90 miles E. of Cape Hattaras, NC

August 21, 1885: Harry Lloyd Cahill is born in Americus, Kansas. 1899: Harry's parents, Sam and Jessie, movethe family to Rocky Ford, Colorado, 13 miles west of Lajunta. They move again to Missoula, Montana. About 1903: Harry goes to business college. 1903-37: Soon after school Harry goes to work on the Panama Canal in Panama. He was soon offered better wages to work on a rail road in Brazil. Again he changed jobs and went to work in Guatamala as a Paymaster for the banana workers. June 16, 1927: Harry and Lavinia Barton Sims get married. April 23, 1928: Their first child, Lavinia Barton Cahill, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. September 26, 1929: Clarissa Barton Cahill is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. April 24, 1933: Harry Lloyd Cahill II is born in Baracoa, Cuba. October 20, 1937: Donald Barton Cahill is born in Mexico City, MexiCo About 1937: As Vice President of the "frontier" division for the DeGorgio Fruit Company, he made sure that the banana plantations in South America and the Caribbean successfully shipped their cargo to the US. March 16, 1942: Harry Cahill left Kingston, Jamaica on one of DeGorgio's small cargo freighters hauling fruit to New York City. The ship was 90 miles off of Cape Hattaras, NC when it was torpedoed by a Nazi U-boat at 8:45pm. The ship sunk within 3 minutes of taking the hit. A survivor said he saw the Captain, Harry and several members of the crew at the impact point. All the lifeboats were destroyed except for 2 life rafts. One raft held 6 crewmen, 2 passengers and a 7 year old boy, and the other held 6 more members of the crew. While approaching the sinking ship the U-boat gunned down one of the rafts. After the ship went down the Nazi sub pulled up to the remaining raft and asked one of the survivors the name of the ship they had just sunk. The man asked the sub commander what was the idea behind sinking a boat full of bananas and killing all it's passengers. The Nazi answered, in good English, "This is war my boy!" Only 6 crew members survived the attack, while 44 people, including Harry died that day. August 21, 1885: Harry Lloyd Cahill is born in Americus, Kansas. 1899: Harry's parents, Sam and Jessie, movethe family to Rocky Ford, Colorado, 13 miles west of Lajunta. They move again to Missoula, Montana. About 1903: Harry goes to business college. 1903-37: Soon after school Harry goes to work on the Panama Canal in Panama. He was soon offered better wages to work on a rail road in Brazil. Again he changed jobs and went to work in Guatamala as a Paymaster for the banana workers. June 16, 1927: Harry and Lavinia Barton Sims get married. April 23, 1928: Their first child, Lavinia Barton Cahill, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. September 26, 1929: Clarissa Barton Cahill is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. April 24, 1933: Harry Lloyd Cahill II is born in Baracoa, Cuba. October 20, 1937: Donald Barton Cahill is born in Mexico City, MexiCo About 1937: As Vice President of the "frontier" division for the DeGorgio Fruit Company, he made sure that the banana plantations in South America and the Caribbean successfully shipped their cargo to the US. March 16, 1942: Harry Cahill left Kingston, Jamaica on one of DeGorgio's small cargo freighters hauling fruit to New York City. The ship was 90 miles off of Cape Hattaras, NC when it was torpedoed by a Nazi U-boat at 8:45pm. The ship sunk within 3 minutes of taking the hit. A survivor said he saw the Captain, Harry and several members of the crew at the impact point. All the lifeboats were destroyed except for 2 life rafts. One raft held 6 crewmen, 2 passengers and a 7 year old boy, and the other held 6 more members of the crew. While approaching the sinking ship the U-boat gunned down one of the rafts. After the ship went down the Nazi sub pulled up to the remaining raft and asked one of the survivors the name of the ship they had just sunk. The man asked the sub commander what was the idea behind sinking a boat full of bananas and killing all it's passengers. The Nazi answered, in good English, "This is war my boy!" Only 6 crew members survived the attack, while 44 people, including Harry died that day.