Hello everybody,
@ Herr Nilsson,
I am glad that someone finally is not only trying to refuse what cannot be refused any longer and restarted making value add questions about this historical event.
Time ago on this forum this was the state of the art and we made great historical discussions obtaining very good work results.
Lately this approach has almost disappeared due to a very evident personal " blind side taken " involvement approach that I can understand, ... even if it is lately deteriorated into personal offenses and insults I started collecting from the worst " hooligan/deniers " on the very early phase of the Articles of War thread, ... from May 2013.
Anyway, lets move to your question :
I am wondering how your " Cover Up " could work without involving Leach and Wake-Walker.
I am sure you remember my very first answer to you on the " Cover Up Synopsis" thread you started on Sept 2015 :
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Now at that time I did not know about the existence of Adm Pound May 28th, 1941 letter to Adm Tovey ( not found yet ) and obviously about Adm Tovey May 31st, 1941 response to Adm Pound that we have now in our hands.
I am sure you have already evaluated the statement Tovey wrote to Pound : " ... I have just received your letter of the 28th ( of May 1941 ) and I am intentionally replying before I see Wake-Walker or Leach. "
This obviously means that Adm Tovey had the clear intention to see and talk to them about the argument in discussion with Pound, ... so they have surely been made aware about it.
Remember that Wake-Walker and Leach final reports have been made on early June 1941, ... surely after Tovey saw and spoke with them about all this story.
We have already discussed about WW differences between his May 28th, interview declarations to the BBC and his report content.
We know about the differences of Capt Leach radio messages content and his final report.
The same thing apply to Capt Ellis report, ... written even after the above two reports, ... and his autobiography explanations of the truth.
It should not take much to realize what was going on in Scapa Flow on board the HMS King George V into Adm Tovey office during those early June 1941 days, ... and on board the HMS Norfolk on the CS1 Flag Officer squadron office between RearAdm Wake-Walker and Capt Ellis + Capt Phillips, ... with Kelburn and PInchin help of course.
Thoughts welcome, ...
Bye Antonio
In order to honor a soldier, we have to tell the truth about what happened over there. The whole, hard, cold truth. And until we do that, we dishonor her and every soldier who died, who gave their life for their country. ( Courage Under Fire )