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llondel
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by llondel » Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:17 pm
Sorry, couldn't resist the title. Turns out that one of 617 Squadron's earthquake bombs didn't go off as it was supposed to.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54522203
The largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in Poland has detonated during the defusing process, a Polish Navy spokesman said.
The chance the bomb - at the bottom of a Baltic Sea shipping canal - would detonate had been put at 50-50 and all the divers were unharmed.
About 750 residents had been evacuated near the port city of Swinoujscie.
The RAF dropped the Tallboy or "earthquake" bomb in a raid in 1945 which sank the German cruiser Lützow.
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by Pontius Navigator » Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:09 pm
True but if you look up all German heavy cruisers you will find :
Deutschland—by now renamed Lützow—Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Hipper were all destroyed by British bombers at the end of the war;"
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by G-CPTN » Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:16 pm
Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:09 pm
Deutschland—by now renamed Lützow—Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Hipper were all destroyed by British bombers at the end of the war;"
Ah! now that makes sense - thanks.
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by Pontius Navigator » Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:16 am
G-CPTN wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:16 pm
Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:09 pm
Deutschland—by now renamed Lützow—Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Hipper were all destroyed by British bombers at the end of the war;"
Ah! now that makes sense - thanks.
To complicate the story although she was sunk the Soviets refloated her and then used her as a gunnery target sank her in 1947.
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by llondel » Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:34 am
They renamed it because they didn't want the symbolism of a ship called Deutschland being sunk.