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Well since this a 'what if' type of question... On the assumption that type 21s had extended the War in the Atlantic by two years, and assuming that the KM U-Boats had stayed in the Atlantic, there's no great history of the German Navy straying far from home, Southern Indian Ocean excepted. I still ...

As an addendum to the OP, Oerlikonn and Bofors were both, I believe European Arms makers, so did the RN just filch the designs? To badly mangle an expression: 'all is fair in love and war' but were the Allies liable for patent theft if they'd used a weapon design from the Axis or occupied countries....

Hello good people, first post on this forum so please be patient! Like the OP I've always had a love of the comparatively few post WW2 British Battleships especially HMS Vanguard. A ship that almost seems to have disappeared from the public memory now, beautiful proportions, well built, armed and en...