Hello everybody,
@ Wadinga,
poor Sean, what a rude awakening is waiting for you once you will go to Cambridge and find out the truth, ... of course assuming you will be able first to realize it, ... and second to accept the evidence too, ... not easy for you, ... as far as I see since years from your side.
Anyway, ... you wrote above :
By my reading of WM 41 53 there was no discussion of the Bismarck action, no questioning of why Pound might have thought Leach's action was unwarranted, ...
My goodness, ... you are totally out of track here too, ... if you only read the May 26th War Cabinet 53
annexes, ... I will help you to find it, ... just go to page 150+151 of the 65-22, ... and not ONLY the 65-18 like you did that contains only the minutes, ...
... you will be able to read what Sir Dudley Pound presented to the War Cabinet about the Bismarck and the Denmark Strait battle at 05.00 pm.
You have the FULL DS battle description with the information he had at hand available, the INQUIRY about several matters and the very important phrase HIGHLIGHTED being accurately separated by the rest of the texture. This one :
The PRINCE OF WALES had then broken off action. Whether she had been right in doing so could not be judged on the information so far available.
To be noted that the information you read BEFORE that statement, are of course partial and mostly INCORRECT, ... but very, very FAVORABLE for the PRINCE OF WALES, ... declared being hit on the MAIN fire controls
... and on the Y turret too
... which we know was NOT TRUE !
Despite those incorrect and very favorable incorrect information ,... still there was a doubt that PoW could NOT have been right on doing so.
You and everybody else can easily imagine what was going to be the statement by knowing that PoW retreated after 2 minutes, with the guns OK, and based only on " superficial damages ", ... as Capt Leach himself communicated to RearAdm Wake-Walker some hours after and the Admiralty surely realized too.
You keep on mentioning Crete, ... and try to convince me and everybody else that WSC was NOT interested on the Bismarck chase evolution.
Poor Sean, nothing can be more incorrect than this evaluation from your side, ... as usual, ... the 24th on May 1941 was Saturday and WSC was at Chequers with Averell Harriman in direct connection with the Admiralty WAR ROOM following Bismarck closely, ... try to find out where WSC was on May 26th and 27th.
Of course HE moved and only covered CRETE ... AFTER !
Since he already knew EVERYTHING in FULL DETAILS ! ... and HE knew it LIVE !
The explanation request at PRIMA FACIE, ... were required AFTER Adm Tovey defeated Adm Pound trial for Court martial request for WW+Leach probably on May 30 on the phone call, ... and those EXPLANATION requested on June 2nd are the ones that have been responded with the documents into the Adm 205/10, ... especially with the page 332 document, ... the one's confirming the " Cover Up " occurred and the shame of this whole " regrettable aftermath ", ... since the EXPLANATION are of course the Adm Tovey DISPATCHES accepted being the truth by the Admiralty
, ... and we all know now that they have been written INTENTIONALLY INCORRECT by Adm Tovey.
Lucky us this historical re-construction is not based solely on your effort, ... since you appear unable even to find existing documents from under your nose, ... and when you find them on archives or books, ... you are NOT able to properly evaluate them, ... and this is the reason why I am keep on telling you, ... just bring them out, and share them in original, .... because there will be someone able to properly investigate and read them.
Still a question comes to my mind looking at what you did with Roskill books and the Adm 205/10 documents.
Do you really want the truth or just try to still hide it by coming here in diverging from it as much as possible ?
Since you are NOT sharing them, ... I will do it.
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 )