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Macabre seagoing custom
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Another interesting photo, from a historical perspective, shows a group
of sailors gathered around a couple of very large maps (no, not charts-
continental maps). At first I wondered what they were doing, but upon
enlarging the photo a bit I noticed that the top of the maps read "The
Daily Mail".
Obviously the newspaper (the Mail) was including large maps of mainland
Europe in some of their issues in those days, and the sailors are
following the progress of the ground war.
A couple of snippets of "flavor" from the British Navy, WWI.
Interesting Chuck.
One side not to your last statement was that in WWI and WWII , weather
the Brits bombed Berlin, or vise versa, where ever the bombs hit
(especially on night raids) the spys would read the next days paper to
find out about the carnage, then radio telegraph the other side to make
a report for accuracy.
primitive intellegence, but it seemed to work.
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