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Don't forget the non-Japanese Axis ships/subs also sunk in the Far East theatre by Allied subs, such as the hilfskreuzer Michel.

I don't have much confidence in the Italians.

How about the Haguro instead?

The hilfskreuzer were not designed to fight real warships, certainly not above 6 inch guns level. They would both be sunk in minutes, unless they could get Cornwall into point blank range and with total surprise. Even then the example of Kormoran/Sydney ambush wouldn't work as even here the German r...

How about Scharnhorst and Gneisenau together to take on Duke of York and the cruisers, plus the five Narvik class destroyers?

I am assuming that Yamato gets to the Atlantic using German supply facilities and has the use of German bases in France and Norway.

With respect to Bismarck being destroyed on the basis of facing two opposing battleships (which appears to have been the British strategy during this campaign), suppose that the Japanese sent Yamato into the
North Atlantic during WW2 and encountered Rodney and King George V.

Who would win?

Do you think that if the German Fleet Commander had been Admiral Wilhelm Marschall instead of Admiral Gunther Lutjens, that the conduct of the German breakout would have been different (more aggressive)? Consider: 1) Would Marschall have been content to be shadowed by Suffolk - at the initial encoun...

All the discussions on the Denmark Strait battle have taken the sinking of Hood as read. But how would the battle have developed if Hood hadn't blown up? Could Hood and POW eventually use their two to one superiority in capital ships to sink Bismarck? Remember that Admiral Holland also had a destroy...

The admitedly fictional account of the destruction of POW is interesting, but there are some factual errors and logistical misunderstandings which makes this version of events impossible. Consider: 1) POW disengaged at 06.13 and not around 06.06 2) Hood and POW had a destroyer escort which would hav...