"That oncoming ship... it's... it's us, sir."
"That oncoming ship... it's... it's us, sir."
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"the British seeing it's own ship coming at it" hurts my brain in so many ways. The wrong "it's". Using "it's" and "it" in relation to a plural formal noun. Could be fixed either by adding the word "navy" and using the correct "its" or by replacing "it's" and "it" with "their" and "them".
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Don't allow there mistakes too ruin you're day.
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Another fun one is when the Nazis built a Decoy Airfield to get the Allies to waste time destroying or capturing it as opposed to real high value operations. Due to inability to complete projects on time, a long running issue with the Nazis, the Allies had plenty of time to catch on to the ruse and dropped a single wooden bomb on it.
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I know funny and that is funny
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If I'm not mistaken the Carmania was a civilian ship that the British outfit with weapons to protect convoys and the germans chose the Carmania because it was a civilian ship so it ended up being a battle between two "civilian" ships with hidden cannons.
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Dressing up as the enemy is actually a war crime.
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What? Committing war crimes? Germany? Preposterous!
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WWI was so famous for everyone fighting a calm and reasonable war with no war crimes
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Not back then it wouldn't be, though, if we take the veracity of the story at face value. The inclusion of perfidy (bad-faith deception, such as dressing up as a civilian or opposing force) as a banned act within the Geneva Conventions was only adopted in 1977, under articles 37 and 39 of Additional Protocol I.
Edit: And even today, Article 39 exempts naval engagements specifically from that provision when it comes to flying the wrong colors with intent to deceive.
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