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To: Travis McGee

The Germans lost something like half of their destroyer fleet at Narvik in 1940. The loss contributed to Germany’s inability to invade England.


12 posted on 03/18/2012 7:16:13 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr

Imagine what close-range slugfests those destroyer battles were!

Point-blank for their main guns, hemmed in by the fjords.


15 posted on 03/18/2012 7:36:48 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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