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Hello All, It is clear that only with the knowledge possessed by an officer in a small, relatively inactive, peacetime navy can one have an opinion on the impingements of a Flag Officer on the Captain's prerogatives, and all the rest of us should just "Shut Up". :lol: I have been and I kno...

Hello HMSVF, You asked: What I don't get is this.... What is the big cover up ? Is it because Wake Walker allegedly fiddled the charts to explain why he didn't engage? Is it because the RN couldn't sink Bismarck through gunfire? Is it because the RN tried to gloss over the loss of HMS Hood? Is it to...

Hello Alberto, Wadinga wrote: "There is nothing to indicate in black and white what certain aspects are." Yes, there are ADM 205/10 pag.331,332 but 331 and 332 are not the War Cabinet minutes are they? They are completely separate documents written by different people, guessing what was me...

Hello Alberto, what is written black and white in the documents War Cabinet Minutes June 2nd 1941 Attention was called to a B.B.C. broadcast made by a military officer who had been on board one of His Majesty's ships in the Bismarck action, which had given an unfavourable impression of our ships' gu...

Hello Alberto, Pound in the 19th September to Alexander (p.332) specifies which are the aspects: Written just over ten days after the man Pound is supposed to have wanted to Court Martial for cowardice and incompetence (three and a half months earlier) has just returned after commanding the successf...

Hello Alberto, A pity for Mr.Wadinga that Roskill separated his historian work from his personal views, as apparent in the letter to (the very poor historian) Kennedy suggesting him not to blame too much Pound Roskill had already attacked Churchill's interference and Pound's own "back seat driv...

Hello Alberto, He again insinuates that Roskill, a recognized historian, had a side-taken manipulator approach I don't insinuate, I state it straight out, as does Brodhurst at length. "Roskill's bias against Pound, which flavours all his writing, is described in Brodhurst pages 102 onwards. &qu...

Hello Antonio, More meaningless hierarchy flow diagrams and description of a system of inflexible bureaucracy which is completely frustrated, apparently, by Pound blurting out a different threat to the one he wrote and Tovey answered in writing, and being forced to rescind it instantaneously, never ...

Hello Alberto, you wrote: NO, because they are evidences, while Mr.Wadinga posts his own interpretation of facts. Could you explain the difference between "historical judgements" and "interpretation"? What makes one evidence and the other merely an interpretation? I note Sir Henr...

Hello Alberto, There must be many things the 31st May letter doesn't say, but it would be pointless for Tovey to say I have no intention of ordering a B of I into the conduct of W-W and Leach under any circumstances but I am only too ready to submit to B of I or C M if Their Lordships see fit to ord...

Hello Alberto, Thank you for reposting the same tired old "proofs" -yet again. Including my hearsay favourites, McMullen saying he was told the same thing as Roskill, surely not worth wasting a whole sentence on. Anybody who has read the CMDS myth has the same hearsay evidence as McMullen....

Hello All, For once I find something to agree with Antonio about. Of course it's only a very small thing. :wink: There are dedicated threads which have discussed in detail the many and manifest problems with PoW's guns and where the most astonishing assertions have been made that there was nothing w...

Hello All, Sorry to interrupt this charming tete a tete but and it would be very unlikely (but not impossible ) to find any other independent proof in addition to Tovey letters, Err A&A claim they have it, it's just that they won't show it until they sell a "sensational" book and make ...

Hello Antonio, The thread title is "The Court Martial for the Denmark Strait". It is concerned with whether there ever really was a threat of CMDS, or whether it was something misremembered/invented 10-20 years afterwards. writing pathetic justifications that nothing has to do with the eve...

Hello HMSVF, As you have been dipping into this conflict for some time you will be aware those who defame Leach's memory claim he was completely unhurt and in full possession of his faculties an instant after this stunning experience. However in the fight to get another Bismarck book published only ...