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.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Gneisenau in the port of Kiel, Germany after taking a torpedo hit from the British submarine HMS Clyde
That is one big, honkin' hole! To have survived that hit, they must have had all the watertight doors dogged down, General quarters type preparedness.
ReplyDeleteIf it struck about 75 ft further aft and Davy Jones would have welcomed it.
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