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.
Today in History: December 7
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This is, as most of you know, the 66th anniversary of The Attack on Pearl Harbor. A tragic, tragic day.
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You like these today in history things don’t yea!? :-D
“December 7th, 1941, a day, that will live in infamy” and it surly has and alwasy will be.
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And on this day, the United States Marines held a “Health Fair” in The Marine Dome at Cherry Point MCAS.
It was a pretty fun day actually. I gave away 500 Safety Kleen Motorsports calendars, and 14 cases of sample products.
And I worked with the Environmental Affairs Department to work out the 2008 hazmat sampling plan as well as work out the process for handling 84 Oil Water Separators that need serviced.
Yep… as of this week, I am now the Account Manager for Cherry Point MCAS in Havelock NC in addition to being the Account Manager for Seymour Johnson (not kidding that is the base name) AFB in Goldsboro, NC.
As for this date in 1941…
They came, they bombed… and they got nuked in return! :-D -
Yes, let us remember the nearly 2400 Americans that died today 66 years ago and brought us into one of the darkest poinst in US history.
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If Japan didn’t bomb us, then we would’ve still got in to the war, just alittle later. Hitler wasn’t going to let us just sit around being nutral the whole time.
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