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Scream
Feb 22, 2020, 2:58:15 AM2/22/20
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Live and learn, why wars are happening?
Winners win, losers pay!
How a crack team of marine experts spent 20 years breaking secret wartime codes and scouring archives to finally trace the £4.5BILLION of British gold sunk by the Nazis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4325822/The-4-5BILLION-British-gold-sunk-Nazis.html
The Grimmond children, whose home had been bombed to pieces weeks before, were among 262 passengers and crew who would perish on that appalling night in September 1940. Even today, it is shocking to read details of the sinking of the City of Benares, an 11,000-ton British liner hit by a German torpedo while carrying evacuees to Canada.
The tragedy would be debated for years. Where was the Royal Navy? How could Germany attack a ship full of children?
Now an intriguing new dimension to the tragedy has emerged. The City of Benares, along with many other ships, may have been targeted for a reason: its secret cargo of gold bullion.
HMS Edinburgh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Edinburgh_%2816%29
On the return journey, Edinburgh was carrying 4.5 long tons (4,570 kg) of gold bullion back to the UK. The consignment, which had a value of about £1.5 million sterling in 1942 (adjusted for inflation to 2020 pounds, £70,424,755), was a partial payment by the USSR for the supplies of war material and military equipment from the Western Allies. In total the ship had 465 gold ingots in 93 wooden boxes stored in the bomb-room just aft of where the first torpedo - fired from U-456 - struck.
Winners win, losers pay!
How a crack team of marine experts spent 20 years breaking secret wartime codes and scouring archives to finally trace the £4.5BILLION of British gold sunk by the Nazis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4325822/The-4-5BILLION-British-gold-sunk-Nazis.html
The Grimmond children, whose home had been bombed to pieces weeks before, were among 262 passengers and crew who would perish on that appalling night in September 1940. Even today, it is shocking to read details of the sinking of the City of Benares, an 11,000-ton British liner hit by a German torpedo while carrying evacuees to Canada.
The tragedy would be debated for years. Where was the Royal Navy? How could Germany attack a ship full of children?
Now an intriguing new dimension to the tragedy has emerged. The City of Benares, along with many other ships, may have been targeted for a reason: its secret cargo of gold bullion.
HMS Edinburgh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Edinburgh_%2816%29
On the return journey, Edinburgh was carrying 4.5 long tons (4,570 kg) of gold bullion back to the UK. The consignment, which had a value of about £1.5 million sterling in 1942 (adjusted for inflation to 2020 pounds, £70,424,755), was a partial payment by the USSR for the supplies of war material and military equipment from the Western Allies. In total the ship had 465 gold ingots in 93 wooden boxes stored in the bomb-room just aft of where the first torpedo - fired from U-456 - struck.
-=DirtBag
Feb 23, 2020, 5:41:41 PM2/23/20
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Scream
Feb 23, 2020, 6:34:59 PM2/23/20
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You thought WW2 was all about killing the Joos?
LOL!
-=DirtBag
Feb 23, 2020, 7:27:07 PM2/23/20
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