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Originally Posted by Targan
There could well be sufficient fuel for one or a few ships to make the trip back to Germany from Norfolk. The German sailors could return as passengers on those couple of ships. I don't think this is completely out of the question because there might be a few high-value ships the Germans insisted on retaining control of and having returned to them at the end of the operation.
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Ok, that makes sense to me...I guess only one ship needs to be able to make it back - the rest of the fleet could be abandoned at Norfolk.