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From: iwm@icdoc.UUCP (Ian Moor)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: S/S Normandie
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 17:19:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 17:19:08 1985
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In article <781@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>> This is an obvious reference to the luxury ocean liner Normandie, 
>Paris fell to the Nazis.  The U.S. siezed the (now Vichy-owned) ship
>and claimed it as captured enemy equipment.  The U.S. renamed her the
                            ^^^^^
Paris fell in 1940, the US was not at war with anybody at the time !

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