yes you got it.... in a tit for tat move they closed each others consulates in those cities over to you
Cheers Yorkie - on a similar theme (I hope not), what incident ocurred in Iceland that eventually led the USA into joining World War II?
The British invasion of Iceland, which had the King of Denmark as Head of State. The defence of Iceland was given over to the U.S. about 4 months before Pearl Harbour? A little know episode, but given Iceland' strategic position in the North Atlantic, it makes perfect sense.
It might make sense, but I'm thinking of a particular incident only two months before Pearl Harbour (or should that be Harbor?) - one that led Hitler to declare war on the USA.
Are you looking for the Americans building the airbase the British started when they really weren't supposed to be?
At the time, Iceland was occupied by the US. A particular 'incident', which happened as a result of an encounter out to sea - one that didn't involve the US as they were neutral at the time - was cited as a provocation by Hitler when he later declared war on the US.
Whoops, forgot about about this. The incident in question was named after a US destroyer, the captain of which did something he shouldn't have.
Is this anything to do with the Greer incident...... or operation Fork to do with GB occupation of Iceland???
Was this the incident? The USS Reuben James DD 245 was sunk by a German U-Boat while providing escort service to convoy on October 31, 1941, before the US had entered the war. In March of 1941, the United States began assisting Great Britain by providing escorts to convoys traveling from the US to Great Britain. The escorts would cover the ships as far as Iceland and from there it would become the responsibility of the British Navy to escort the ships. On October 23 the Reuben James and four other destroyers sailed from Naval Station Argentia in New Foundland escorting Convoy HV 156. On the morning o October 31st of the coast of Iceland, 1941 off the coast of Iceland U-552 fired at a British merchant ship but instead hit the Reuben James in the bow. Ammunition on the ship exploded and the bow sunk immediately with aft section going down five minutes later. One Hundred crew members were killed with only 44 enlisted men and no officers surviving.
Is this the so called Kearny Incident in Otbober 1941. USS Kearny was called to assist after a U Boat attack on a British convoy and its Canadian escorts - which led to the same US Destroyer dropping depth charges on German U boats.
Sorry, I'd forgotten about this... Help! - or more likely Hilfe! - is what the u-boat commanders were shouting on 15th/16th October 1941 when attacked by a supposedly neutral destroyer. If it's any help - the destroyer bears the same name as one of Australia's greatest ever footballers - a dual League/Union international with the aliterative name of Ken Killer .......
Cheers BB. Keeping up the martial theme - who sent the following open letter to who ? : 'Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to ?????? and I won't have to send a second'.
The writer was multi lingual (5 languages) and was able to send the letter in the recipients language.
You beat me to it... I remembered reading this and have been struggling to pick out who said it from the cobwebs...
