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Nazi sign commemorating World War Two Navy raid gifted to UK Royal Navy Museum

A captured Nazi sign commemorating a buccaneering World War Two raid by the navy has been donated to the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

The Altmark Incident was an early wartime morale boost for Britain which saw a boarding party from the British destroyer, HMS Cossack, release 299 British prisoners from the German ship Altmark in a Norwegian fjord....
Read entire article at Culture 24 (UK)