Re: Bull-Turtle's-Head.

From: Stewart Stansfield <stu_stansfield_at_Rsk4YMBSprJT2hVkMmlvxH0wEigkY7uJCgiLfHBBWcn_EJooirJ3u_BszieTb>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:36:09 -0000


Jeff:
> You mean like in WWII when the British submarine HMS Triton sank
> another British submarine, HMS Oxley, mistaking it for a German U-
boat
> and received no responses to challenges? Or in 1942, when the
British
> destroyer HMS St Albans sunk an allied submarine ORP
Jastrz&#261;b? Or in
> 1944 when a British flotilla was attacked by RAF Hawker Typhoons off
> the coast of Le Havre and sanking two ships? Or at the Suez Canal in
> 1956 when the Royal Navy attacked the British Army's HQ? Or how
about
> during the Falklands when two companies from the 3rd Battalion of
the
> British Army engaged each other in an hour-long firefight involving
> heavy weapons and artillery strikes.

Our army had more than two battalions back then? Bloody defence cuts; we've gone to the dogs.

Stu (who loves being educated via Google).            

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