And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, July 6, 2018
The Finnish minelayer Ruotsinsalmi and her crew as they lay contact mines in the gulf of Finland on May 18th of 1942.
My old man was working a rig in the north Atlantic during the mid to late seventies. Had to get the British royal navy to deal with a WWII mine adrift in the area.
for the least amount of money and time and risk with the most persistence, damage caused and area denial. planted just far enough apart to prevent fratricide and at a depth just below low tide on the outside ring with floater on the inside will give many a ships captain pause to reflect on the virtues of conservative actions.
To Russia...with love.
ReplyDeleteThose things kept Taking Out Ships well into the 1960's, until they Rusted and Sank...
ReplyDeleteMy old man was working a rig in the north Atlantic during the mid to late seventies. Had to get the British royal navy to deal with a WWII mine adrift in the area.
Deletefor the least amount of money and time and risk with the most persistence, damage caused and area denial. planted just far enough apart to prevent fratricide and at a depth just below low tide on the outside ring with floater on the inside will give many a ships captain pause to reflect on the virtues of conservative actions.
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