On February 4, 1940, the American luxury liner SS Manhattan was seized by British forces in Gibraltar and released after 390 sacks of mail bound for Germany were confiscated.
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Every new piece of information shared by Indy and the team, as well as contributors on this forum is excellent. Keep up the good work.
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Thank you very much. It’s election year in America, so get ready for some juicy stuff. I hope they talk about this incident.
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For a second I thought you meant 2019, but yeah FDR is running for his 3rd term. Which reminds me, Wendell Willkie is the only other person besides Donald Trump to be a major party nominee for President in US history to have never been in politics or the military before election day.
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Of course not, silly!
I may use photos from the 1996, 2000, 2004 elections as references for colorization, but it sure ain’t 2019.
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