On Monday, 21 November 2016 22:46:09 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
Simon Mason wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Pity about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charle...eged_war_crime

Lieutenant Commander Lightoller was awarded a Bar to the Distinguished
Service Cross for sinking SM UB-110.

Irrelevant to the war crime he committed after sinking
it which the authoritys never got told about.

The squareheads bombed my workplace, so stuff 'em.

Saltend, East Riding of Yorkshire (just outside of the Hull city boundary) suffered the very first daylight raid on mainland Britain. It happened between 16:40 and 17:00 on 1 July 1940 when a German aircraft dropped its bombs on the oil terminal at Salt End during a €˜nuisance raid in which the aircraft unsuccessfully attacked several barrage balloons.

Shrapnel from the bomb punctured a 2,500 tons holding tank and the leaking petrol caught fire and threatened to cause adjacent tanks to explode. The courageous effort of depot staff and fire brigades prevented a major disaster.

Two firemen, Jack Owen and Clifford Turner, and three Salt End workers, George Archibald Howe, George Samuel Sewell and William Sigsworth, were awarded the George Medal for their bravery.

http://www.hullandeastridingatwar.co...x.php/theblitz