Wakefield Press
1 The Parade West
Kent Town
South Australia 5067
First published 2006
This edition published 2012
Copyright © Jim McLoughlin and David Gibb, 2006
All rights reserved. This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced without written permission. Enquiries should be addressed to the publisher.
Cover designed by Lahn Stafford Design
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication entry
McLoughlin, Jim, 1921– .
One common enemy [electronic resource]: the Laconia Incident: a survivor’s memoir.
ISBN 978 1 74305 180 1 (ebook: epub).
1. McLoughlin, Jim, 1921– .
2. Laconia (Ship).
3. U-156 (Submarine).
4. World War, 1939–1945—Personal narratives.
5. World War, 1939–1945—Search and rescue operations.
6. World War, 1939–1945—Naval operations, German.
7. World War, 1939–1945—Naval operations—Submarine.
I. Title.
940.5451
Front cover: Laconia survivors being rescued
(Photograph: Horst Bredow, U-boot Archiv)
