Bismarck firing procedures at DS

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Re: Bismarck firing procedures at DS

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Hello Alberto,

Looking at the definitive map of 1990 produced by two of the participants.
Look at the Baron's and Schmalenbach's map most recent map 1990, and see for yourself. Lutjens turns away to starboard at 05:55 in compliance with his instructions to avoid entanglement with British ships.

The Bismarck turns only gradually away, exactly as one would do if one wanted to maintain accurate gunnery. She is not on 270T for any length of time, if she made that at all, before swinging back to port. For most of the first turn, since she is not on 270T her rate of change relative to PoW is not zero. In the film there is no suggestion she is at 50 degrees course difference to PG, perhaps no more than 20 degrees divergence.

I ask again, will someone with a clear copy of the PoW salvo plot give the "assumed course" value at the top? McMullen's reductions in range on successive salvoes are composed of two elements: down ladder range reductions due to initial over estimation of range but also the the faulty rate from the clock due to poor inclination estimate, hence "enemy course".


Of course Bill's calculations are valid for Bismarck's firing too when she and her target are manoeuvring violently and if Bismarck cannot hit with 8 guns between 06:03 and 06:09 (not proven) then Aylwin's chances with single gun salvoes are even lower.

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Hello everybody,
Wadinga wrote: "The Bismarck turns only gradually away...She is not on 270T for any length of time, if she made that at all..."
Mr.Wadinga admits now that the 1990 map is totally wrong (in his NEW "opinion", she was never on course 270°, therefore the whole map has to be re-worked to allow the PG to keep the position vs the flagship that we see in the film and in the photos... :kaput: ). He should now work and produce his own battlemap instead of presenting his usual blah-blah.


Mr.Wadinga wants to invent a gradual turn now (totally unsupported) but he is still unable to realize that the film shows her on a constant course around 270° until almost the end of the film for 1,5 or 2 minutes....
This is proven by the photos taken at the time of the film, clearly showing her guns trained at extreme angle aft (only possible when on around course 270°).

Unfortunately for him, there is no way the range could diminish by almost 5000 yards in 4 minutes with Bismarck on any course more westerly than 220° (as per PoW salvo plot that he cannot deny). Again mathematics and geometry plays against his stubborn denial attempt (at least this time he was left alone by his co-deniers here in such an enormity).
Therefore even his new invented theory is already proven WRONG, before he is able (if ever...) to produce his own map.


It's sad to see how this guy is unable to simply admit an error.



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Re: Bismarck firing procedures at DS

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Hello everybody,

as anticipated long time ago, … now we have this " hooligan/denier " reaching the top of the list for the most absurd and invented fantasy written about the Denmark Strait battle track run by the Bismarck.

Mr. Winklareth has lost his leadership with his reverse photo theory, ... where at least he was keeping the Bismarck sailing toward the enemy, ... following the well know Prinz Eugen track, ... and not away, ... totally disregarding the Prinz Eugen known track and the photo and film evidence we have, ... :shock:

It does not surprise me at all given the pathetic performance he showed on the Norfolk track and bearings thread, ... :wink:

http://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopi ... 492#p79492

Congratulations, ...

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alecsandros wrote: Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:57 am
northcape wrote: Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:38 pm I can also come up with any theory, then provide some explanations for the theory
Round and round in circles (of hell) we go. Never seeing the light, never hearing the good word.

:quiet:
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This is hilarious, indeed the height of cheek. You have spent years being a controversialist, if not indeed a semi-troll on many boards, indeed being banned for a couple of years on at least one !

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A and A ;

Two suggestions.

One, yet again I would ask that you find a native English speaker to look over your work, you still come across at times as misdirecting yourselves over both official and colloquial English.

Second, I might suggest that IF you want people to take your "silver bullet", Jasper's letter to Raeder and the rest of your "magazine" of info seriously, but you do not want to make them public yet you have an ideal opportunity here with the presence of Bill Jurens. He is a professional and well understands the concept of academic confidentiality. You could send him the documents and he could, in agreement with yourselves, make a statement to this board (IF HE IS WILLING) along the lines of "yes/no, this information is a real game changer and does/does not convincingly prove A & A's ideas. His joint book on the Bismarck is due out at the end of January and hence will have been finished and being prepared for printing and transport. He would have the background DETAILED knowledge to appreciate whether your "new" info is indeed worthwhile.

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pgollin wrote: Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:01 pm This is hilarious, indeed the height of cheek. You have spent years being a controversialist, if not indeed a semi-troll on many boards, indeed being banned for a couple of years on at least one !
Realy ? Which one would that be ?
In any case, coming from you, banned repeadetedly (unfortunately NOT permanently on Navweapons) , it doesn't mean much.
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alecsandros wrote: Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:57 am
northcape wrote: Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:38 pm I can also come up with any theory, then provide some explanations for the theory
Round and round in circles (of hell) we go. Never seeing the light, never hearing the good word.

:quiet:
If you would try to understand my post, there would be no need for this rather unrelated reply of yours.

My point is that the correct scientific/technical approach is of course the following: (1) we have a few "hard facts" (e.g. real observations like total number of shells fired, the fact that Hood was hit and exploded in a time very likely between 5:55 and 6:05, a few well estimated ranges, etc.). (2) Based on these facts and some other ideas/asssumptions, we reconstruct the battle (create a hypothesis). The timing of the film is part of the hypothesis, since the film has no time recorded (therefore there is no hard fact representing a timed film. (3) We try to verify or falsify our hypothesis by comparing its predictions (such as timing of the film) to the hard facts.

What A&A do, is the re-introduce their hypothesis of certain time marks of the film as a hard fact. This is equivalent to saying "I have proven that the earth is flat because my theory predicts that the earth is flat". If this does not sound very odd to you than I don't know.
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Re: Bismarck firing procedures at DS

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Hello A & A,

I love the way you behave as if I had "invented" this map, as indeed Rob Winklareth invented his.
reaching the top of the list for the most absurd and invented fantasy written about the Denmark Strait battle track run by the Bismarck.

Mr. Winklareth has lost his leadership with his reverse photo theory,
Therefore even his new invented theory is already proven WRONG,
This is the last map created and approved by both Mullheim-Rechberg and Schmalenbach in 1990. Your obsession to push forward your own distorted and fabricated view blinds you to the fact you are contradicting three eye witnesses (including Lagemann). Sorry, four including Herzog. If you want to argue they are wrong and your fantasy is correct, fine. Pour your derision and insults on them, they won't care. But it is their map not my map and their photo captions not my interpretations and their survivor statement, not mine. Therefore sadly, I cannot accept your congratulations. :cool:
Mr.Wadinga admits now that the 1990 map is totally wrong
I say nothing of the sort, merely that the time spent on a course of 270T may be very short or non-existent. If you can tell what angle toward the stern Bismarck's guns are firing, I'll bet there are few others who would say such a thing was possible. If two gunnery officers, men with gyro repeaters and relative bearing devices right by them say Bismarck turned away before 06:00 that is strong evidence.


I can only presume you realize how damaging the "assumed course" for Bismarck written at the top of the salvo plot is, which why you withhold it like so much information contradicting your fantasy assertions. No matter, another visit to the original is on the cards. What a shame you can't keep all the evidence secret! :D


I do not intend to generate a fantasy map as you have done, based on distorting or avoiding evidence, or creating imaginary salvo charts for Bismarck when there is no actual information other than expended shells.


Hello Northcape,

I'm afraid you are wasting your time with Alexandros, his critical faculties have been entirely subsumed by A & A and he is in their thrall. He probably doesn't even recognise his own posts from a time when he dared disagree with them.


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Hello everybody,
Wadinga wrote: "I say nothing of the sort, merely that the time spent on a course of 270T may be very short or non-existent"
Thus Mr.Wadinga does say that the 1990 map is WRONG as it shows Bismarck on course 270° for 5 minutes. Is he able to see the contradiction he is saying or not ?

Anyway, on NO course other than 220° Bismarck could have closed the range to PoW by almost 5000 yards in 4 minutes.
This is based on geometry and it is incontrovertible
, but Mr.Wadinga is so ignorant in mathematics that he possibly cannot understand such an evident proof of the fact that (despite the Baron used it), the map is simply WRONG, as well as his "softened" version of it.... :lol:
I guess any sane person should be able to see that on course 270° Bismarck would NOT have closed the range vs Hood and PoW. Instead, she passed from 21150 yards at 05:56:10 (salvo 6 landing) to 16450 yards at 6:00:00 (salvo 13 landing). BOTH salvo 6 and 13 were straddles, therefore this distance change is surely CORRECT.
Is Mr.Wadinga able (or willing) to address this point ? NO, as usual, as well as he does "not intend to generate a fantasy map", because he is simply unable to put together the evidences and build his own reconstruction of the battle. :kaput:


Unfortunately for him and for all the deniers who at least left him alone in this last enormity (saying that there are at least "a few well estimated ranges" :lol: ), Antonio has done a reconstruction that is correct because it respects all available evidences and his work is here.


Come on Mr.Wadinga , don't be hesitant, SWITCH ON YOUR BRAIN ONCE SINCE MONTHS and explain us how the closure rate can be so high with ANY course more westerly than 220° from 5:56 till 6:00. :lol: :lol: :lol: ....He is disgustingly shameless in his denial frenzy recently....



Bye, Alberto
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northcape wrote: Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:09 pm If this does not sound very odd to you than I don't know.
It does.
Problem is all of the questions you and others post have already been posted numerous times (literally dozens of times). Antonio is impossibly patient...

But as nobody is willing to dig into 4years+ of discussions (probably thousands of pages), the same questions arise again and again and again, an again, in circles, of hell. Instead of Antonio and Alberto, I would have stopped a LONG time ago from replying to endless ridiculous questions ("wasn't 6:13 a typo after all ?" "didn't the Baron SAY Norfolk and Suffolk were at 12 to 15miles distant ?" "didn't Prince of Wales manifest armament troubles before the battle ?", etc, etc, etc. That's not to say that the questions AREN'T RELEVANT in the economy of the historiography of the battle - of course they are - it's just that so much has been excavated around them, in terms of eye wittness descritions, official German and British reports, etc, etc, in years of research, that re-hashing them is , at the same time, a proof of superficial research into the previous debates on the forum, a certain lack of respect for the work of others (that have politely and patiently descbried their point of view, including the questions above countless times), and a rash judgment of a complicated affair... ). What I would have done would have been to stop working on the forum and instead concentrate on filing the documents into folders... folders into chapters, chapters into parts... and parts into a book.
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Alberto Virtuani wrote: Mon Oct 08, 2018 7:49 pm Anyway, on NO course other than 220° Bismarck could have closed the range to PoW by almost 5000 yards in 4 minutes.
Dear Alberto,
with all due respect, I have a feeling you are purposefully ignoring the TELEPORTATION unit mounted on Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, that was used during Op. Rheinubung several times, to reposition ships on completely new coordinates and courses !

I hope you will take this matter into serious consideration and that your future replies will take it into account.
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alecsandros wrote: Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:00 pm
northcape wrote: Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:09 pm If this does not sound very odd to you than I don't know.
It does.
Problem is all of the questions you and others post have already been posted numerous times (literally dozens of times). Antonio is impossibly patient...
Your reply does not make any sense to me. I did not ask any question. I simply stress out the naive (and wrong) approach to interpretation of historical evidences as done by A&A, which they disguise as a "scientific" method. If you mean that they are doing this since years, it does not make it any better.
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northcape wrote: Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:03 pm I simply stress out the naive (and wrong) approach to interpretation of historical evidences as done by A&A, which they disguise as a "scientific" method.
Feel free to apply it and present the results here.
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Hello Alberto,

Your requirement for personal mano-a-mano combat and victory at all costs by any means, over "loosers" mean you could not let anybody else have the last word in any thread, which answers Alecsandros' query about why you keep posting. Also for your fantasy to gain any support at all (none garnered yet apart from the aforementioned, it must endlessly restated.


The Baron's 1990 map which was last shown as long ago as page 34 of this thread, is very sparse with timing marks and it would be difficult to say whether Bismarck steered west for five, four or three minutes. I see you could bring yourself to describe it as the Baron's map, but won't help by telling me what the assumed course on the salvo plot is. No matter.


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Re: Bismarck firing procedures at DS

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Hello everybody,
Wadinga wrote: " it would be difficult to say whether Bismarck steered west for five, four or three minutes..."
No, it is very easy, looking at the PoW salvo plot, to conclude that Bismarck was NEVER on a more westerly course than 220° at ANY time between 5:56 and 6:00, because on any other more westerly course she could not have closed the range to PoW by almost 5000 yards in 4 minutes.

Wadinga wrote: "Your requirement for personal mano-a-mano combat and victory at all costs by any means, over "loosers" mean you could not let anybody else have the last word"
It's not my fault if the poor Mr.Wading has said an enormity (only to try to deny the facts shown in the film), if he was left alone by everybody and if now he is too arrogant to admit his error. I understand his difficulty, but it would be more dignifying to admit the defeat, or at least to shut-up like other "timid" (but insulting) posters have "wisely" done. :kaput:
I cannot be blamed just because I do not accept an enormity !

However, I appreciate the fact that he knows very well what this defeat means for his denial of the Bismarck firing analysis and RoF.... :D


The final (I hope...) conclusion is that the 1990 map is proven WRONG and Mr.Wadinga has to find another one, if he still wants to counter Antonio's one. Full Stop.


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