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Washed up WW2 history in Texas

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Here is a great story of some World War II history that washed up on the Texas coast.

https://news.yahoo.com/rubber-bales-wwii-era-german-162559834.html
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@abworsham4 right on. I don’t normally click on yahoo but i did this time :)
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Witt Mod 2026 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 @barnee
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Good morning Worsham. Interesting. Thanks.
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@witt Good morning, friend.
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Cool story. Let’s hope this gets preserved.
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In his history of the war Churchill expresses regret that operation Jupiter, the liberation of Norway, never was carried out. The Brits would never have invaded Sweden.
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As I recall, when the Norwegains protested to the British that Britain had violated Norwegian neutrality by entering Norwegian waters and boarding the Altmark, the British retorted that the Altmark had violated Norwegian neutrality by anchoring in Norwegian waters while retaining a cargo hold full of prisoners of war. The British also apparently implied that the Norwegians had been either openly complicit in this action or, at the very least, negligent in not discovering the German ruse. My understanding of international law is that belligerent ships entering neutral waters are required to release any prisoners of war they are carrying – a good example being, ironically enough, the British prisonners who were released in neutral Uruguay by Captain Langsdorff when the Graf Spee (the ship supplied by the Altmark) anchored in Montevideo harbour. At any rate, the British position vis a vis Norway was basically, “You drop your protest and we’ll drop ours.” Which they did.
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@RJL518:

Do you guys think that Germany DID change their attack plans after the plane had crashed?Â

I haven’t looked at the linked article, but one thing to remember is that the German plans for invading western Europe changed substantially (and many times) between the fall of Poland and the invasion of the Low Countries – so it would be hard to say whether this incident was (if at all) exclusively responsible for any particular changes a plan that was already evolving.
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At least 749 U.S. sailors and soldiers would be dead by dawn.
Code-named Exercise Tiger, the ill-fated D-Day dry run was at the time America’s costliest incident of the war (only Pearl Harbor was worse).

:roll:sigh, people just dont know anything about history

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@Col:

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