To: nickcarraway
How does Austria have a navy?
To: LiberalismDestroys
WW1 Austria had a coastline on the Adriatic.
3 posted on
05/19/2022 2:39:22 PM PDT by
Tallguy
To: LiberalismDestroys
Prior to WW1 The Austria-Hungary Empire had access to the Adriatic Sea.
4 posted on
05/19/2022 2:42:23 PM PDT by
Semper Vigilantis
(Biden out + Kamela in + Obama VP + Kamel out = we're screwed)
To: LiberalismDestroys
It did in 1914!
Captain Von Trapp was a WWI U-boat skipper in the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Navy. Was there most successful sub skipper - sank 14 Allied ships!
5 posted on
05/19/2022 2:43:45 PM PDT by
Reily
To: LiberalismDestroys; Tallguy; Semper Vigilantis; Reily
Present day Croatia,Slovenia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The home port of their navy was Pola, Croatia, but they also had Trieste, which is now part of Italy.
To: LiberalismDestroys
Even funnier than that, Switzerland still has a navy to this day. It only operates on lakes, but still, it’s a navy!
8 posted on
05/19/2022 2:53:16 PM PDT by
Boogieman
To: LiberalismDestroys
Seemann, Deine Heimat Ist Das Meer (Sailor, your home is the ocean)--a smash-hit ballad about a sailor by Lolita Ditta, who hails from Austria, a country with no seacoast.
To: LiberalismDestroys
How does Austria have a navy? It dooesnt, now. Austria Hungary, as it existed when Count Von Trapp would have served, was much larger and reached to water.
To: LiberalismDestroys
The Austro-Hungarina Empire was a log bigger than present-day (or even 1939) Austria:
The Empire was broken up after its defeat in WW-I
CAPT Georg von Trapp was a hero of the empire, and a very successful submarine commander. The fact that he was on "the other side" should take nothing from our admiration of the man. The movie and stage-play "The Sound of Music" makes passing reference to his naval service, but definitely centers on Hitler's interest in having him come out of retirement and join the Kriegsmarine. Von Trapp was an Austrian patriot ... and therefore absolutely not a NAZI.
To the Last Salute is well worth the read, if you really want to know something about the Austrian Navy.
15 posted on
05/19/2022 3:53:37 PM PDT by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: LiberalismDestroys
How does Austria have a navy? The same way a US Navy ship might get a Captain from Nebraska...Austrians could join the German navy.
23 posted on
05/19/2022 4:17:14 PM PDT by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: LiberalismDestroys
I always smirked at that despite knowing better. But I’d like to know how I have an ancestor who in the Swiss navy.
24 posted on
05/19/2022 4:18:51 PM PDT by
dangus
(I had some sympathies for some of Russia's positions... until they started a G-d-damned war.)
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