Because we can.
That’s right.
This is a BBC piece.
Hey Brits-the Yanks saved your a$$es-that’s why.
Because we kicked their ass.
They must not have been able to find any photos of Eleanor Roosevelt giving a Nazi salute, and didn’t want to show any of the sacred Kennedy’s giving one despite the strong likelihood such exist. That’s the current fashion when trying to smear a selected target with a Nazi brush. Besides, why scrap a boat undoubtedly built with typical German engineering precision? Their own royal navy was never averse to renaming and putting to use captured French ships during the Napoleonic wars.
Now that’s a