soc.history.war.world-war-ii

"Phil McGregor" wrote in message
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> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:53:36 -0400, "L2008"
> wrote:
>
>>"Phil McGregor" wrote in message
>>news:47e1734c.1512796@news.individual.net...
>>
>>>> There were enough German survivors (and not all lied)
>>>
>>> 1) Do you have independently verified proof of this?
>>>
>>> No? Then it must be discounted.
>>>
>>> 2) Were those alleged "non-lying" survivors in a position to actually
>>> KNOW whether Detmers had ordered the attack under a false flag or not?
>>
>>The Sydney was a cruiser - a formidable ship. What the f**k was it doing
>>in
>>a position that it could be shot at?
>
> You haven't been paying attention ... unsurprisingly.

Sydney "allegedly" never had her guns trained on the ship. I would not fire
off torpedoes if it meant my ship would be immediately sunk. He must have
thought he had a good chance of survival to launch the torpedoes.