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TIL Frederic John Walker known more popularly as Johnnie Walker (the brand of Whisky), was the most successful anti-submarine commander of the Second World War, being credited with 17 U boats destroyed. One eccentric aspect of his charismatic nature was the playing of the tune “A Hunting we will go”
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I’ve worked a little with the Royal Navy. British naval officers are almost deliberately eccentric in some way. I think it’s a tradition.
*U-Boat captain hears “A-Hunting We Will Go*
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17 is a very impressive kill count. The Germans must have hated him.