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3 posted on 08/23/2010 4:38:50 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/aug40/f23aug40.htm

Seaplanes sink ship off Scotland

Friday, August 23, 1940 www.onwar.com

In Moray Firth... Off the eastern coast of Scotland, German He115 seaplanes, armed with torpedoes, sink 2 cargo ships and damage a third.

In the Mediterranean... The British destroyer Hostile is sunk by an Italian mine in the Sicilian Channel.


4 posted on 08/23/2010 4:44:16 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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