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- Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:16 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: PK Ltnt J.C. Schmitz-Westerholt
- Replies: 2
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Superb !!!
Ciao Ulrich and all, instead of writing you in private as I usually often do, I would like this time to write this one to you in public my friend. You got it ! :clap: :clap: :clap: And you helped me solving a dilemma I was looking for since the beginning of June when I saw something on Bundesarchiv ...
- Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:48 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: PK Ltnt J.C. Schmitz-Westerholt
- Replies: 2
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PK Ltnt J.C. Schmitz-Westerholt
Ciao all, many of you will recognize this name : Propaganza Krieg (PK) Lieutenant Julius Ceasar Schmitz-Westerholt he was the painter on board Prinz Eugen during Denmark Strait battle and the author of the article on Signal magazine of September 1941 that is also available to read on this website. D...
- Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:22 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
- Replies: 80
- Views: 40510
Measures
Ciao Marc and all, OK, I see. I think we can be satisfyied with this measure you obtained which is very close anyhow and I agree with you my friend. What about taking your 1,65 meter ( 1650 mm ) and move on ? I am really curious to see your evaluation of the Bismarck shadow as your inputs so far are...
- Fri Aug 05, 2005 3:01 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
- Replies: 80
- Views: 40510
Measures
Ciao Marc and all, good to know it helped :D . OK I will send you what I have right away. Missing a very good drawing of Prinz Eugen ( on enlarging the ones I sent you I have wrongly evaluated 1800 mm with the proportions ) I have checked the Admiral Hipper ones ( from AJ-Press Morskie books I have,...
- Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:05 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Color of Bismarck turret tops
- Replies: 38
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Bismarck turret tops
Ciao all, @ Javier, you were right Javier ! During Baltic Sea period training Bismarck did had the turrets coloured on Red. The schemes were painted and some trials been made both for the full top ( including the sloped parts ) as well as the flat surface only of the top main turrets. So with the so...
- Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:25 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
- Replies: 80
- Views: 40510
Measures
Ciao Patrick, Marc and all, @ Patrick, your observation of the Prinz Eugen wake is very clever :D In fact that wake as we know from other photos too was remaining on the sea for quite a long time, .. and here we can assess a couple of minutes at least. No, unfortunately I have no idea on how to use ...
- Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:42 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
- Replies: 80
- Views: 40510
Distance and photo evaluation
Ciao Marc and all, OK, good to know you have received the material so we can always refer to something similar while progressing :D . No problems for me if at the end it will end up been 1,65 meters. We need to come as close as we can to the reality, unfortunately we do not have available the precis...
- Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:31 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
- Replies: 80
- Views: 40510
Distances
Ciao Marc and all, no problems Marc :D You wrote 10.4 I did 10.5, .. on reality it was 10.6 as you wrote to and you are the correct one in this case :D . Here some material for everybody to enjoy the calculations on this photo if they like, thanking Jose' for the space provided for this material to ...
- Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:24 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
- Replies: 80
- Views: 40510
Latest
Ciao Marc,
I need you to write me an e-mail, I have lost your e-mail address on my portable PC and I am far from home and my house PC, sorry .
Ciao Antonio
I need you to write me an e-mail, I have lost your e-mail address on my portable PC and I am far from home and my house PC, sorry .
Ciao Antonio
- Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:19 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
- Replies: 80
- Views: 40510
Prinz Eugen parameters
Ciao Marc, Javier and all, Javier, do not run the risk to wrongly evaluate the full turrets height, which is as you said different between C and D as C was taller than D. Both turrets had a lateral side plate that was the same on both and did not reached the back of the turret on both. On the photo ...
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:42 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
- Replies: 80
- Views: 40510
Distance of Bismarck
Ciao Marc and all, nice talking again to you my friend :D Here some correct parameters : Height of Bismarck from waterline to top rangefinder was 33 meters ( but please consider Bismarck hull been deep on the water due to her load on that moment ), so be careful on evaluating her shadow proportions ...
- Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:06 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
- Replies: 80
- Views: 40510
Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
Ciao all, since I am starting a couple of weeks of well deserved vacations, I took back my study on the famous battle to enjoy my hobby :D . Here a question we have left on the table, what is your evaluation of the distance between Prinz Eugen on the lead and Bismarck on the back on this photo which...
- Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:20 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: DS reversed photo theory and battle maps comparison
- Replies: 63
- Views: 35336
Denmark Strait new photos
Ciao Patrick and all, first of all let me thanks you from my heart to have me taken into this questions :D ... lately I am really not so excited to still write about my hobby in public forums :( . Anyway, here I am and thanking you again I will restart hopefully with no problems :?. I see you got ri...
- Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:17 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: DS reversed photo theory and battle maps comparison
- Replies: 63
- Views: 35336
New Photos
Ciao Patrick and all, sorry I think we are not getting each other right, no problems. I was just asking what is your opinion about the other 3 photos found during my last trip to Germany. On the post I wrote above on June 9th, 2005 there is a description of 4 photos. You commented one ( the last ) a...
- Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:18 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: DS reversed photo theory and battle maps comparison
- Replies: 63
- Views: 35336
Denmark Strait new photos
Ciao Patrick and all, few comments from my side. Can you comment also the other 3 photos out of which : 1 clearly shows Bismarck details and turret guns orientations like Nh 69728 ( at 06.04 ) but with more details visible, no doubts left here, Bismarck is sailing west on Prinz Eugen starboard side ...