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Italy too had studied project to convert some minor cruisers, according to Giorgerini,in aircraft carrers,but it was too expensive. Think about the cost of a battleship of the Bismarck class. Do ou think Kriegsmarine would have wasted again 100'000'000 of marks to rebuilt them completely? They would...

"more than 2,000 rounds expended on her without sinking" She's still afloat somewhere? Again I missed that account. In fact, Rodney and KGV action was not sufficient to sink her. I don't think Sir Tovey was in mood to waste all his torpedoes if he hadn't a good reason to throw them at Bis...

Antonio Bonomi wrote: ...than the one on May 5th I see still remain a mistery, ..

Well, if I am not mistaken, the ship wasn't involved...or better, it was the cause of the incident, but still...

Am I correct?Was it THAT incident?

@Foeth: why does all the dutchies I know have not this interests and expecially such patience?

Usually newbye question: how you can realize it?

My God...


This is almost morbid...

Concerning the human remains : After the experience with the remains of some U-Boat Sailors. (Skull removed from Wreck and displayed in SCUBA-Shop (East Coast USA)). Germany and the US agreed to honour any wreckage sites as war grave. You may imagine the remains of US or British Flight crews shot d...

No.It's evident the svastika painted on the teak bridge under Lindemann.Svastikas weren't painted until april.

Should have been a speech in occasion of Hitler's visit May 1st 1941?
I don't know, Hitler would have been surely after Lindemann in such an event...

Indeed...well, it's the proof that the Iron Chancellor wiseness is still actual after 120 years...

I could say that the sight, the sea, the lead-clouded sky, the snow on the mountains and the green shores, is exactly the one of an old viking saga...

Yeah, it could be that speech...

Well... Lindemann is standing on a wood sit, and on the bridge under him we could see the great painted svastika.But there's not trace of the anchors chains, so it should be the one painted at Bismarck's bow. We know the two great svastikas were painted, if I am not mistaken, in the March 1941.So th...

I don't want to make easy suppositions, but the officer standing in front of the microphone seems Captain Lindemann to me...