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Concur. Any concentration of German heavies would generate a similar concentration by the Brits.

And, hit they could!

Assuming the fleet had gotten underway and was found by Japanese aircraft, are you saying the American land based aircraft, with warning, would not have been close enough to protect the fleet?

Ugly, yes. But they do give a distinct impression of power.

Understood. By the way, you mentioned the close air support the Japanese fleet had at Midway in terms of shooting down American torpedo planes. If the battle fleet at Pearl Harbor had been warned and underway, their land based aircraft would have had the same warning and would have been their to sup...

Tiornu,

Are you saying Bismarck had a mix of 105's & 88's?

Concur with above, but I think in this case even the victor would be left a shambles.

I'm new, be gentle. SoDak- roughly equal in protection. SoDak- 16" guns firing a shell weighing nearly 1,000 pounds more than Bismarck's 15". I appreciate there are many more variables involved, but I think it comes down to basically this.