in a post in which almost ONLY personal opinions are listed instead of proven facts (e.g. "there never was a CMDS threat , Tovey exaggerated , and people have gleefully jumped on the bandwagon ....there was no actual cause for suspicion ....You have invented "intentional lies" out of a few minor irrelevant discrepancies .....You have generated meaningless maps .... ": all are Mr.Wadinga fantastic speculations and/or intentional lies),
No, it was forgotten (only because Bismarck had been sunk) when Churchill said "Leave it" in September after "very full discussions with Tovey and Leach" during summer (but possibly, in Mr.Wadinga fantasy, they just discussed the menus to be served on board PoW during the trip to Placentia Bay.... ).Wadinga even wrote: "There was only ever a request for a B of I, which was instantly forgotten about"
How can this guy still write such enormities like "minor irrelevant discrepancies" ? 13 minutes PoW fight alone instead of 1 only ? 50% of main armament out of action before the decision to retreat instead of 10% ? 30.000 yards instead of 20.000 yards ? 15 sm instead of 9 sm, etc. ? These are neither minor nor irrelevant. They are intentional alterations, invented in reports/declarations released on purpose (NOT at the time of facts, but days/months later, in order to provide further justifications) .
Regarding the "meaningless maps", we all understand that, being unable to counter geometry, Mr.Wadinga (and all the deniers who refused to accept the bearings agreed as starting point) prefers to stick to Pinchin's Plot and... to Schmalenbach's first battlemap.... , due to the (too easy) "fog of war", instead of relying on the best reconstruction of the battle ever: Antonio's one.
Bye, Alberto