Hello Alberto,
I don't need to re-evaluate my opinion
but I would like to hear from Mr.Wadinga an explanation why NH69729 should show Bismarck cutting PG course at 90° . Based on what exactly
Because we already agree
But the credit to have resolved this ' enigma ' goes to Wadinga that clearly addressed the issue
Now I think we all can say with a very high confidence level that Nh 69729 was surely taken midship as I said , between the catapult and the crane.
It shows Bismarck coming 90 degrees to Prinz Eugen beam on starboard side.
That Bismarck is at 90 degrees to Prinz Eugen's course. It's just that in twelve years of increasingly extreme fantasizing about British cover ups and conspiracies and defending his speculative map and timetable as irrefutable (accurate to +/- 5 seconds of course
) he has never changed this part of his original map to reflect what we have all agreed and is obvious from the photography. And of course explaining away that the only time Prinz Eugen was on a course at about 90 degrees to the German base course of 220T is long after the shooting stopped, if the Gefechtsskizze and its timing were a reliable document. But since the photo shows two vessels at 90 degrees and one of them is still shooting, something requires further investigation.
I notice you refuse to comment on the ridiculous proximity of the German as ships depicted in Antonio's map, whilst being prepared to speculate on the precise number of seconds it takes Bismarck to turn through a certain number of degrees when there is apparently no evidence from the Ship's trials at 28-30 knots to tell us.
There is no hidden agenda, I am completely against the entire map and timetable which are fabricated solely to serve the purposes of your Conspiracy Theory and the idea that it is infallible. Nobody has been defeated or requires resurrection.
For Bill Jurens:
I have only declined to provide my own straw-man map (accurate to +/- 5 seconds of course
) for A & A to knock down. As I believe you have observed there is probably too little information to generate a definitive map. I am perfectly happy to say why I think there was a turn away before Hood's demise and it is based on Rowell and Lagemann as witnesses. Rowell's letter from Iceland says so and someone, probably Lagemann from 1941, has apparently written on the photographs. Steamrollering over the evidence of Rowell who said the Germans turned away and Lagemann showing Bismarck was diverging as Hood's shells landed is not responsible investigation. Neither is ignoring the Busch book comment saying these are the last shots from the Battlecruiser. Both M-R and Schmalenbach have also shown such turnaways.
I have published Rowell's letter (not previously available) with his evidence on this website, and the only one of us who has apparently been to the Bundesarchiv and handled the actual photographic material refuses point blank to reveal what is written on or with the photographs. He chooses not
to say at all what it is, rather than show it and then explain why in his opinion, the witness is wrong and he is right. Draw the conclusion you wish from this.
Incidentally, I believe I used the phrase "Crazy Ivan" to describe the synchronized turns executed by Bismarck and Prinz Eugen much earlier and apparently to no obvious purpose. I was analogizing to the hydrophone enabling turns made by the "Red Oktober" in the movie. The person dominating the pages of usages of "crazy" found by using the website search function, by calling other posters or their ideas "crazy" is indeed Alberto.
All the best
wadinga