Jolly Roger flag - from 1982 to present day

Jimbuna · 01-12-11, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Penguin

So do you think that the order to raise the black flag on the u-boats during the capitulation has a connection to this fact?

I couldn't say for sure but IMHO I'd have thought it was more a way of sending a 'dark sorrowful message' a kind of 'mourning' if you like.

Penguin · 01-12-11, 10:28 AM

hmm, interesting, I haven't seen the flags in the mourning sense till now. Maybe. As you certainly know the u-boat crews preceived it that they were branded as pirates, so this makes the use of the Jolly Roger by the British so remarkable to me.

01-12-11, 10:28 AM	#2
Penguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rheinische Republik Posts: 3,322 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	hmm, interesting, I haven't seen the flags in the mourning sense till now. Maybe. As you certainly know the u-boat crews preceived it that they were branded as pirates, so this makes the use of the Jolly Roger by the British so remarkable to me.