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Thread #5862   Message #622573
Posted By: GUEST,Keith A at work.
07-Jan-02 - 03:30 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Jutland (Les Sullivan)
Subject: RE: battle of jutland
Thanks all esp. Kitty and Gareth.
As has been said the German Fleet did not venture out again after Jutland. Previously, their operations consisted of sneaking across the North Sea and firing their huge shells into English coastal towns causing mostly civillian casualties. This, before aerial bombing of towns had become part of warfare, was considered an outrage here.
Talking ot air bombing, the Zeppelins of the Kriegsmarine gave us this also. Here in leafy Hertford my ex wife's grandfather, as a choir boy singing carols outside a Hertford building, lost an arm and other boys killed. You can still see shrapnell damage to that building.
Keith.