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I think Alaska would win: her radar-directed gunfire would have hit Scharnhorst quicker than vice versa, especially if the weather was bad or the action fought at night- Scharnhorst would have certainly avoided action at night because of inferior FC, but she would not be able to avoid action if Alas...

I'd be interested in the DVDs too...but I doubt their format would play on DVD players here in the US.
George G.

There are many reasons given why Bismarck failed to shoot down any of the antiquated Swordfish-it seems, at least at first, to be somehow "unfair" that a modern, well-armed battleship could fail to shoot down obsolete biplanes that had to struggle to fly at 95 knots. In his memoirs, Mullen...