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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Uboat black surrender flag?

I thought surrender flags were white. Anyone explain?

14 posted on 05/11/2015 12:01:10 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)

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To: PeterPrinciple

For whatever reason, the agreed upon surrender signal for U-boats was a black flag. Don’t know why.

16 posted on 05/11/2015 12:42:50 PM PDT by EternalVigilance

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