Nobody Is Perfect - 2

On 22 February 1940 a Luftwaffe bomber flying off the coast of Borkum, sighted two destroyers. It strafed, bombed and cornered the vessels.
Seldom has one plane caused so much damage. Unfortunately, the destroyers, the Lebrecht Maass and the Max Schultz both belonged to the German Navy.

In 1941 HMS Trinidad, while on patrol in the Arctic, fired a torpedo at a passing German destroyer. Its crew completely overlooked the effect of the icy water on oil in the torpedo's steering mechanism. The crew watched as it travelled at 40 knots towards its target and slowly became aware that the torpedo was starting to follow a curved course. In less than a minute it was pursuing a semi-circular route straight into the Trinidad's path. Displaying the precision timing on which Naval warfare depends, the torpedo scored a direct hit on the ship's engine room and put HMS Trinidad out of action for the rest of the war.

In 1976, R. E. de Bruyeker broke into the NATO naval base at Agnano, near Naples, while spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and removed a box of top secret documents.
Unfortunately, he left his overnight bag behind in the office. It contained not only a hammer, a file, a bible and a copy of Playboy, but also full details about himself and his whereabouts. He was traced almost immediately.

The fastest defeat in any war was suffered in 1896 by Said Khalid, the pretender Sultan of Zanzibar.
On 27 August the British battle fleet arrived to deliver an ultimatum. He declined to vacate the palace at the request of Rear Admiral Harry Holdsworth Rawson and so fighting broke out at 9.02 a.m. It reached its peak around 9.15 a.m. and was all over by 9.40 a.m.
The jewel of the Zanzibar defence force was its only warship, The Glasgow, an ageing ocean tramp steamer. The turning point in the war came when it was sunk with only two shells.
The Sultan's palace was completely destroyed and, to add insult to total destruction, the British asked local residents to pay for the ammunition used in wrecking the place.

To celebrate `Air Force Week' in 1975, thirty Peruvian fighter planes took part in a demonstration attack on fourteen old fishing boats.
The vessels were sailed out off the coast of Peru and anchored.
Then the impressive fighter force flew over the craft, high and low, strafing and bombing for the best part of fifteen minutes.
To the amazement of the watching crowd, they failed to sink a single boat.

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