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.
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
U278 photographed from a B-24 Liberator, probably during its move to Scotland.
Following the German capitulation, the boat was moved from Norway to Loch Eriboll in Scotland, for Operation Deadlight. She was sunk on 31 December 1945 by gunfire from HMS Onslaught and ORP Blyskawica.
If they'd spared the U-Boat, it could have been a museum for many to enjoy. But in 1945, they had other things in mind.
ReplyDeleteB-24 is pretty darned low!
ReplyDeleteU 505 captured at sea during WW II rather than surrendered is on display at the Field Museum in Chicago.
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