Re: Ridgway work week June 4 - 8

Chris Walker Wrote:
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> I have no clue as to the relevance of that remark
> has to do with this thread. Even our small Navy
> has excelled, notably in the first Naval battle of
> WW2 at a time when your country was only in-
> terested in making money out of the War. Obvi-
> ously they didn't teach you about the Battle of
> the River Plate in School.


Hi, Chris -

Was that when a German pocket battleship tried to hide out in Uruguay or Paraguay, and the New Zealanders & British bottled her up there and the Krauts ended up scuttling her in the Plate River?   I vaguely remember the names Tirpitz and Graf Spee, but it wasn't either of them.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2018 09:02PM by Russo Loco.