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Below is a mystery/horror film from 2002, set on an American submarine during the Second World War, where the crew experiences apparent supernatural occurrences caused by the vengeful ghost of the ship's captain, who'd stuck his head and fallen overboard while confirming the sinking of a German warship. In the final third, its revealed that the captain was murdered by his senior officers to cover up, and conceal from the rest of the crew, the fact that they'd actually mis-identified and sunk a British hospital ship.

During the final scene, one of the surviving Americans wonders how he is going to explain all of the supernatural events from the film. However, I suspect that British and American authorities are going to be far more concerned with the fact that an American submarine torpedoed and sank a British hospital ship, loaded with more than 300 wounded soldiers, refused to give aid to survivors, and attempted to cover it up.

If this actually happened, what would be the fallout?
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