[AU72]

Ironic how after the Armistice the Germans were ordered to surrender their High Seas ships to the British, but then scuttled them all in Scapa Flow in a final act of defiance.

My wife's grandfather witnessed the grand scuttle just out of Annapolis. In WWII he was one of the chief architects of amphibious landings, commanding transport squadrons across the Pacific and was the first flag vessel into Nagasaki taking the city's surrender in his wardroom.

[elcid1970]

That sounds like a distinguished Naval career.

But Nagasaki...surrendering?

“Here, Americans, accept this box of ashes & rubble in token of our surrender. We couldn’t find anything larger.”

(The atomic bombings were necessary, don’t get me wrong.)

[MUDDOG]