L/Cpl Job Maseko receives his Military Medal (MM) from Major General Theron, after Job had blown up a German vessel with an improvised explosive while in Nazi captivity at Tobruk. 1943 [600×504]
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L/Cpl Job Maseko receives his Military Medal (MM) from Major General Theron, after Job had blown up a German vessel with an improvised explosive while in Nazi captivity at Tobruk. 1943 [600×504]
by IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA
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His medal citation reads as follows:
> For meritorious and courageous action in that on or about the 21st July, while a Prisoner of War, he, Job Masego, sank a fully laden enemy steamer – probably an “F” boat – while moored in Tobruk Harbour.
> This he did by placing a small tin filled with gunpowder in among drums of petrol in the hold, leading a fuse therefrom to the hatch and lighting the fuse upon closing the hatch.
> In carrying out this deliberately planned action, Job Masego displayed ingenuity, determination and complete disregard of personal safety from punishment by the enemy or from the ensuing explosion which set the vessel alight.
[For a more detailed telling of events, here is the report Job himself made about the incident.](https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoricalCapsule/s/NFHRxF9Z7L)
And then he went home only to be asked to sit in the back of the bus, and enter shops from the back door.