Hello everybody,
@ CAG,
first of all the serious stuffs ...
... the Tirpitz books are going great, ... we are in process now to release the 4th out of 5 for the Tirpitz.
Second the modeling, .... I am working a Tirpitz on scale 1/100 for the Tirpitz Alta Museum, .. being a donation I have to finish up on behalf of an old Norwegian modeler friend recently passed away,... to have his desire and dream becoming reality, ... as I promised to him and his parents now.
I hope too that a Bismarck to Tirpitz conversion kit will be soon released for the Trumpeter 1/200 Bismarck kit, ... lets hope for it soon, ... I will make it exactly like I am doing it now by modifying currently an Hachette kit from Bismarck to Tirpitz on scale 1/200 too, ... unfortunately De Agostini seems to have stopped their release of a Tirpitz on scale 1/200 in Germany.
This you wrote and asked :
I understand your point, the good news was already there in that Bismarck had gone, so I am not sure if Wake-Walker did what they wanted him to why there would be need of a good news cover up ?
I just wish you luck in trying to find the answer.
I already found the answer and it is easy for you to check it too.
Everybody initially was releasing initial messages and declarations, especially Leach ( radio message ) and Wake-Walker ( First board and interview ), but also Tovey too on May 30th, 1941 to Admiralty.
When they became aware of the possible inquiry and court martial they stopped everything and waited for Adm Tovey to conclude his " deal " with Adm Pound and come back with the " solution " of the case.
In fact it was Adm Tovey to " coordinate and release " by early July 1941 the new version of the events ( altered and modified ) by " driving " also WW and Leach Official reports too, ... a lot different if compared to their own initial declarations.
Capt Ellis was still at sea and it was not difficult to convince him about how to release an " acceptable " version of the fact to be declared. He will write the truth on his own biography only well after the war ended when he was living in USA ...
It remained to eliminate some already very superficially signed Official records, ... like WW initial declaration to the First Hood board of Inquiry, ... of being at 20.000 yards from Hood and 11 sm from the enemy, ...and it was done with the Hood Second board and "The Plot" done on purpose, ... before asking the Admiralty to accept the new set of facts, distances and declaration, ... provided buy the Adm Tovey summary on his dispatches, ... the ONLY document the Admiralty board was going to refer to and to acknowledge and accept, ... as we well know by their Official response.
I do not need any luck about the above, ... all is available and to be verified by everybody wants to realize the events and their sequence.
What I need luck to, ... is to find the Official interrogation of William Dundas, ... the midshipman working that night on the Hood chart table on the Hood Compass Platform aside Comm. Warrand and ViceAdm Holland, ... never released to anybody by the Admiralty. He was one of the 3 survivors and ... never released anything after, ... despite being on the most important place that night and having plotted all ship tracks and heard a lot of very interesting situations for sure into the Hood Compass Platform area all night long, ... until they sunk.
What I need luck to, ... is to find the Norfolk and Suffolk Official tactical plots, ... ALL disappeared from the official available records, ... that will demonstrate for sure what I am re-costructing using what I have, ... mostly the official available bearings and their strategical plots.
What I need luck to, ... is to find the Official Jasper gunnery plot of the Prinz Eugen ...
Any help like in the case of the recent available WW interview, ...which confirmed once again all I have re-constructed in clear words by himself, ... any help will be welcome of course ...
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 )