Four British sailors killed when the HMT Bedfordshire was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1942 are buried in this tiny cemetery on Ocracoke. The plot is maintained in honor of the men and is treated ceremonially as British soil.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: nps.gov/caha/learn/historyculture/british-cemetery.htm