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Originally Posted by moscowexile
Not so sure about the Royal Navy not starting any bother before that nice Mr. Chamberlain announced on Sunday, September 3rd 1939 that since 11 o'clock that morning a state of war had existed between the United Kingdom and Germany. Recently I had got out on patrol into the Chops of the Channel on that fateful Sunday morning and had spotted a R.N. armed auxiliary cruiser at about 7 a.m., which vessel I was dogging until the kick-off at 11 o'clock when I planned to slot couple of eels into her.
So there I was, waiting for the whistle to blow, when suddenly I was lit up by the cruiser's searchlights and got stonked good and proper. That was at about 8 a.m., September 3rd 1939. And as I and my doughty crew plummeted to Davy Jones's locker, I yelled out: "Fight fair, Englische Schweinehünde!"
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Ask any Scottsman about Perfidous Albion.
(Did you watch the parade yesterday?)