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  • Why is the US still using a Nazi tall ship?

    07/29/2015 7:42:24 AM PDT · by Freeport · 108 replies
    BBC News ^ | 29 July 2015 | James Morgan
    The Eagle was built by the Nazis and fought for Hitler in World War Two - so how did a tall ship that once flew the swastika end up as a training vessel for new US Coast Guard cadets? Driving home along the coast of Connecticut one winter's evening, Tido Holtkamp saw a ghost. There she was - moored in the harbour, her three towering masts, draped with those familiar sails he had rigged back in the German Navy in World War Two. Her body had been repainted in the red, white and blue of the US, but her curves...