During the war, Foyle was a crucial convoy escort base and in 1945 it witnessed the surrender of the German fleet.

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In 1918, part of the German fleet mutinied at Kiel.

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During World War II, America's P51 Mustang fighter, a single-engine prop plane, creamed the first fleet of German combat jets, the Messerschmitt 262.

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In 1942, the German army entered Toulon and the French fleet anchored there was scuttled by its own crews.

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In 1995 he sold the German bit of his company to Lufthansa Condor, a subsidiary of the German airline, giving him enough capital to buy a small fleet of Boeing planes, another selling-point over rivals still flying oily Tupolevs.

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