Naval History Forums

The greater failure was that of ignoring an important inter-war "technical mission" to the western Pacific, made by Adm. Jellicoe (IIRC?), whose assessment of Britain's capabilities in defending her eastern empire holdings were best served not by Singapore, but other locations. Singapore h...

All he had to DO was use Google Earth....

tommy303 wrote:looks more like an Essex class carrier than the Enterprise (CV6).

Unquestionably an Essex-class bird farm. ID will be difficult without a paper trail or caption written in situ by the photographer.

Cool pics, by the way!

Of course, German 15" projectiles WHICH FAIL TO EXPLODE don't factor into the open-range tests now, do they? One can PENETRATE all sorts of armor plate just fine, but if that's ALL it does, i.e., when it fails to detonate (as in Prince of Wales ' case), its value deteriorates to that of a heavy...

I've not paid much attention to this plot before today.

Now I will.

It looks almost as if the BC1 tracks are drawn to a completely different scale, doesn't it?

But had he maintained the northerly course much longer, the Germans might have gotten clean away with him chasing from astern... EXACTLY! :clap: I.e., he (Holland) was already in danger of running astern of the Germans to their northeast....the result of taking the northerly course I indicated, in ...

The sheer logic, then, would seem to have been maintain west or south of west, if the concern was a south-bound enemy, to keep station and interception on an AHEAD bearing from that enemy. No matter which direction Lütjens turned--east (toward Tovey), reversing course (back to the Arctic and AWAY fr...

I never understood the logic of Holland running North after the cruisers lost contact. Even if his enemy HAD turned back toward the Arctic --as Lütjens had done previously, with Scharnhorst & Gneisenau --there was almost no hope of Holland catching them from astern. It was that (generally) north...

Remember too, that there is at least one OTHER "can of worms" shelved-away for so many years, perhaps with an even uglier and more embarrassing "secret" inside...that of HMS Glorious (June 1940).

I'm telling you, it's all related to the top-secret mission of USCGC Modoc .... :dance: Hi, Antonio Surely you understand my comment intended as humor... :angel: But seriously, there is every reason to believe that more exists; as Byron has already noted, there are likely files and documents very q...

I'm telling you, it's all related to the top-secret mission of USCGC Modoc....

In case it has not been mentioned already, I'd like to point out that Bismarck 's salvo which fatally struck Hood , was followed up with another salvo from the battleship; these shells were aimed at the expected point where Hood would have been, had she not exploded. My point is, these shells had a ...

paulcadogan wrote:

The map I have (Map 2) shows the open fire point between time points 0550 and 0555 (it has Hood blowing up at 0556!!!)...

Ahh, NOW we are approaching the correct timing within the "black box" I wrote about, previously!

I am open-minded as well.

Everything that goes IN, falls OUT!