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by healthycoffee
Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:26 am
Forum: The Wreck of the Bismarck
Topic: Secondary Turret, Forward Turret, Starboard side
Replies: 14
Views: 20596

Re: Secondary Turret, Forward Turret, Starboard side

ok, this is part of the deal, a large shell hit like that shown the turret did one or two things. first, the people inside where blown apart to such an degree of fragments and or they was completly vaporized and sucked out by the vacume and fire that gutted the inside. this is what happens to a body...
by healthycoffee
Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:03 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Bismarck Myths
Replies: 179
Views: 47241

Re: Bismarck Myths

the newjersey is a strange design, the hull has always made me wonder what designers had in mind. i wish she would have fought bismarck and tirpitz at once. those two ships would be out ranged, out gunned, and could never catch up to her to even fire back in 41. bismarck and tirpitz are useless in c...
by healthycoffee
Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:35 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: How did you come to be interested in Bismarck?
Replies: 161
Views: 185318

Re: How did you come to be interested in Bismarck?

I read the book Sink the Bismarck by c.s. forester (if that is spelled correctly) when I was in elementary school in 1st grade in 1973. It bothered me that this ship was suppose to be all that and a bag of chips but yet it was cut down by weaker ships and old bi planes. What was the truth? Was Battl...