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How Hitler's 'invincible' wolves of the ocean were captured in secret on Scots sea loch
The Daily Record ^
| 5/15/2010
| Grace Macaskill
Posted on 05/15/2010 9:36:15 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:39:28 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: GeronL
My favorite story was the U-Boat trying to attack Hoover Dam.
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:41:21 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread:-General Heinz Guderian)
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:45:44 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: sonofstrangelove
How did a black flag come to mean surrender? I thought it meant piracy.
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:46:28 PM PDT
by
SeeSharp
To: GeronL
For anyone who is curious the U-Boat who was supposed to have made the mission it is U-133
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:47:07 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread:-General Heinz Guderian)
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:47:12 PM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: SeeSharp
No. German U-boats were ordered by the Allied powers to fly a black flag and sail to an Allied port and surrender.
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:50:44 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread:-General Heinz Guderian)
To: SeeSharp
While the army and air force could surrender where they were, many U-boats were still at sea, and so careful arrangements had to be made at the end of hostilities.
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:51:44 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread:-General Heinz Guderian)
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:54:25 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(When buying and selling are legislated, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.)
To: Sherman Logan
If you look at my post you would see the word “supposed”
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:55:19 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread:-General Heinz Guderian)
To: sonofstrangelove
Yup. Just adding a reference.
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:57:19 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(When buying and selling are legislated, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.)
To: Sherman Logan
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posted on
05/15/2010 9:58:05 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread:-General Heinz Guderian)
To: SeeSharp
Traditionally, the black flag means that no prisoners will be taken, or that the ones flying it will ask for no quarter. Opposite of a white flag.
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posted on
05/15/2010 10:00:32 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
05/15/2010 10:22:24 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Huskrrrr
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posted on
05/15/2010 10:23:00 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread:-General Heinz Guderian)
To: sonofstrangelove; Huskrrrr
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posted on
05/15/2010 10:24:36 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
To: Huskrrrr
Me three. Never seen that one!
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posted on
05/15/2010 10:38:33 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: sonofstrangelove
My favorite story was the U-Boat trying to attack Hoover Dam. I have lived in Las Vegas for 35 years now. Hiked every canyon, mountain, etc.
Overlooking Hoover Dam is a relatively flat-topped hill, not exactly a mesa, called "Fortification Hill." Spent an ugly night up there, sleeping on the ground, one cold November many years ago, in fact. :(
Anyway, the idea was that the Japanese bombers would attack the dam, but anti-aircraft emplacements would be situated up there to knock 'em down when they did.
Man, the paranoia factor must have been high in the 1940's. We were that scared.
Ah, the comfort of 20:20 historical hindsight. Thank God it never got that bad for us.
Sauron
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posted on
05/15/2010 10:48:59 PM PDT
by
sauron
("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
To: sauron
Its impossible because the Colorado River is shallow. Secondly, the the U-Boat would have to make the trip around the southern tip of South America, Any lastly, they would at some point need to refuel. Another U-Boat fable,that U-120 was sunk by “a toilet” supposedly the only U-boat to suffer that ungraceful fate.
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posted on
05/15/2010 10:53:10 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread:-General Heinz Guderian)
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