Hello Alberto,
To be accepted, they just need to be more solid than the PoW salvo plot because this one alone fixes Bismarck course to 220° (or less) from 5:56:10 till 6:00:30, during the time all hits were received.
As I posted, some while ago, in another thread:
I do not believe anyone has accurately timed the Bismarck hits or even definitively decided in which order they were made. No description of entry or exit angles exists as in the case of PoW. At the crudest level of analysis a line drawn between the 6th and 9th points suggests a Bismarck course of less than 200T and between 9th and 13th more than 230T. The "suggested" course for Bismarck at the top of the sheet appears to be 212T (have you a clearer copy?) Bismarck's dotted course is pure guesswork.
If the drawn length of the salvoes is to scale (for instance either 7 or 8 is definitely incorrect) then the point of origin is wrong and the fabricated track of PoW is incorrect. This makes sense, since it was generated from the AFCT data which has no ship's track, and it leaves out the second turn to port and emergency turn to starboard experienced by Brooke and seen aboard the German ships.
Since then we have seen fabricated, "visualised", "concluded" entry/exit tracks produced, none with any more provenance than the provider's imagination. When asked for provenance the providers are either shy or belligerent.
The salvo plot has the illegible (on the web copy) "assumed" course of Bismarck as perceived in PoW printed at the top. Whatever it is, it is not 220T. It is not "fixed" at all.
Your co-author has been to the Bundesarchiv, and has examined the photos for which the original caption recorded by the catalog shows shell splashes as being from Hood, just like Busch's book, and attributed to Lagemann. Your co-author knows if anything is written on the back, but he is not saying. Why not?
BTW please take the H out of IMHO when you post. As has been impartially observed your
consistently belligerent and demeaning tone of correspondence
suggests you are incapable of doing humble.
Hello Bill, Thank you for your forbearance, it will be a great shame if the poor behaviour of some posters means you will not contribute your expertise and injections of reality.
I'm afraid I cannot agree with your observation:
The real issue here does not revolve around the precise angle of interception of the hit in Bismarck's bow. While interesting enough insofar as it goes,in reality it falls into the category of historical trivia.
I believe it is the very lynchpin of the Conspiracy Theory. The attempt to rewrite the Denmark Straits action and denigrate the universally accepted version as a cynical British fabrication "written by the Victors" revolves around the timing of the film and photographs. Limited as it is, it is far more coverage than any other naval engagement has had. The "trotting out" of irrelevant stock footage of Italian battleships being hit or Barham blowing up for TV documentaries is evidence to that.
A & A have fabricated a timetable (and maps and many other things) based on their assertion that the film shows Bismarck after Hood has blown up. Once that timetable is disproved their whole conspiracy assertion falls to pieces. Leach didn't panic and does not deserve the accusation of cowardice, With nothing to hide there is no Conspiracy. The ludicrous obssession about what constitutes "retreating" and at what minute it happened and whether Tovey was right to record it happened at 06:13 or some other time truly is
historical trivia. Is retreating from imaginary torpedoes, more of less heroic/cowardly than a real hail of fire?
Whereas I believe Rob Winklareth genuinely thought he had discovered something, the withholding or redaction of real evidence and the huge amount of fabricated evidence generated using pseudo mathematics and geometry shows we are dealing with a more sinister attempt to distort truth here. Purely for personal gain. One that needs to be snuffed out before it gains credence.
Luckily,
due to the consistently belligerent and demeaning tone of correspondence
of the promoters and the efforts of many like myself to expose their evident chicanery, they are gaining no credence at all.
All the best
wadinga