JRT, Jens,

Thanks for your 'welcome home'! \:D

That Jutland business is generally considered to have been a draw but in fact can be seen as a victory for the RN because the losses, although about equal, affected the Germans more to the extent that they never fancied a return match. I wonder if Jutland was in the mind of Captain Hans Langsdorff when he decided to scuttle the Graf Spee in Montevideo?


Seems like a good opportunity to discover and excavate more of those bunkers. Just think of the cash you could make flogging Third Reich memorabilia on Ebay...actually I think they have strict rules about offering such items. Best stick to the Exchange & Mart or the North Derbyshire Woman's Institute Quarterly Digest as an alternative means of disposal.

It was Birmingham comedian Jasper Carrott OBE (yes, that really is his name) who observed that you needed half a pint of phlegm in your throat as an aid to welsh pronunciation. Probably untrue...



'Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant.'

Manfred von Richtofen
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