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Skriven 2008-07-31 16:43:11 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 19240 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: A passing of signific
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31 Jul 08 08:35, Ward Dossche wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> BA> The US Navy was fighting in WW II long before Pearl Harbor,

 RW>> Wrong. "Former" US Navy personel were fighting in China against the
 RW>> Japanese before Pearl. US sold P-40s to the Chinese Nationalists and
 RW>> they were being flown by former Navy pilots, but they showed the
 RW>> Chinese version of the sun on their fuselage and wings.

 RW>> So were former US military personnel fighting in Europe, but not in
 RW>> US uniform, but Canadian and British.

 WD> That is not entirely correct.

Keywords: Fighting in US military uniform. Fighting.

 WD> In May 1941 just after Bismarck had sunk Hood together with Prinz
 WD> Eugen, it managed to slip away from HMS Suffolk and HMS Norfolk as a
 WD> result being lost for a full day.

 WD> It was a long range search by American planes that detected it again.
 WD> Planes and crew in US colours and uniform. The position was radioed
 WD> immediately to the Brits which made 'm turn around nearly 180ø and
 WD> start racing in the other direction. It equally enabled the Swordfish
 WD> attacks that crippled it.

Had they not broadcast their whereabouts, Bismark would have been persued
on the same course they were on. Since the radio transmissions of the US
flyers weren't coded, the Germans wouldn't have know any different had
they not been listening. So, both sides gained some time to react.

 WD> Strict neutrality would have meant to shut up.

Strict neutrality would have meant that the Swedes wouldn't have reported
its passing thru the Baltic. Yet they did. It was the US's neutrality that
kept those flyboys from attacking that ship. Which means that they weren't
engaged in the fight while in US military uniform. Not to mention that
they were probably unarmed, so there would be no mistake about being
neutral.

                R\%/itt



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