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Ciao RF and all, But PoW correctly identyfied the Bismarck anyway, Hood did not. I think the Suffok radio reports always reporting Bismarck ahead of Prinz Eugen did play a role there confusing Hood and Adm Holland a lot. Ciao Antonio :D 2 points here: 1) Apparently there was a lengthy discussion on...

Apart from Francisco Solano Lopez there haven't been any leaders with the ego of Kaiser Wilhelm II (for whom the title of the Bond film ''The World is not enough'' would be highly appropriate) or mad like Hitler. But I think it fair to say that there has been some expansionism where countries can ge...

Hey... actually this battle could go either way... the forces are pretty much equal. Scharnhorst: better protection Renown: better speed the guns, depending on how we arm the twins...is similiar as well... how about the twins against renown in clear conditions? would they then win? adios miro In cl...

ostriker wrote:
I don't know what Churchill could have say. May be "it is the war, no victory without sacrifice" (and it is true)

You've missed my meaning - the French in doing much better fighting their British allies than in fighting the Germans who had just overran France....

If the British Mediterranean Fleet comes out into the Atlantic, I suppose the Regia Marina could be persuaded to send Vittorio Veneto and Littorio shooting their way past Gibraltar with cruisers to reinforce the Germans....

foeth wrote:Just interjecting, but is the hyphen only present when "sloped-back" is an adjective? Example:

The armour was sloped back
The sloped-back armour

That's British armor of course.

Thats the beauty of the English language. Otherwise its backsloped armour in any other language....

Karl Heidenreich wrote:Atlantic Theatre, that includes the Mediterranean.

So we could nominate Malta. It did receive the George Cross - until at least Dom Mintoff returned it......

This happened when both ships were involved in patrolling the coast of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. As an aside one young German cadet officer was invited by an Australian officer during one of these patrols to visit the Australian cruiser, which the German did. He was even allowed to take ph...

Karl Heidenreich wrote:About Gunther Prien and his reception of the medal:


Imagine this guy working with Admiral Marschall... :wink:

How about Marschall replacing Raeder as head of the Kriegsmarine, and Helmuth von Ruckteschell as Fleet Commander for Rheinubung.....

About Gunther Prien and his reception of the medal: On 14 October 1939 Prien risked shallow water, unknown shoals, tricky currents and detection by defenders to penetrate the Royal Navy's primary base, Scapa Flow. Although most of the Home Fleet was at sea, Prien sank the battleship Royal Oak and r...

A third award was planned for the most successful German general during the Second World War, but was not made after the defeat of Germany in 1945. There was also the problem that the likely recepient had already been killed by suicide pill, taken as an alternative to being executed for treason.

There was more to it than just a pay cut. This moreover was a mutiny against a government not the ships officers who were also affected in the same way.... There were more serious but much less well known outright muntinies in both the French and British Armies in WW1. The French mutiny after the Ni...

After following some threads I found interesting that in some the 15" guns of Bismarck are regarded as enough and sufficient to do the job of fighting in the war. But when you put Bismarck in a hypothetical scenario against, let´s say, HMS Nelson then everybody claim that the superior 16"...

To Asuncion? And how was he supposed of going out? I did say this as a surprise move. I don't actually know how far you could get a panzerschiffe up the Parana river. Paraguay was so German friendly at that time the Graf Spee wouldn't have to come out! It could stay there indefinately and wait for ...

A further thought on this - given Lutjens order to Mullenheim-Rechberg - it is also highly likely Lutjens felt that having PE on either Bismarcks starboard quarter or astern of her would encourage Norfolk/Suffolk to put on a spurt of speed to try to attack PE while Bismarck was fully engaged. Rememb...