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So if the main battery finds the correct fire solution and straddles the target, could her data (range, bearing etc.) be transfered directly from the main battery fire control computer to the secondary battery fire control computer? So that they achieve a straddle with these data as well?

...To sink HMS Glorious the ‘twins’ expended 387 x 11” shells registering only 5 hits... Where is this number from? Reading John Winton, "Carrier Glorious ", one gets the impression that the carrier was hit more often. Form a german source (I guess by Siegfried Breyer) I remember somethin...

Hello Jellicoe! Keep in mind that this book of Breyer contains several "mistakes". Most of them are not real mistakes, I guess. I think that better information were simply not available to Breyer at the date the book was printed first. Later he corrected most of them with his second issue ...

Hi José!

Yes, of course!
Is the resolution ok?

Sadly not, I guess.

At least not in the near future.

Josef Kaiser has recently published his newest work: Schlachtschiff Bismarck - Der Beginn der „Rheinübung“ It is about the first part of the operation, the way from Gotenhafen to Grimstadtfjord in Norway. Josef reconstructs the events and courses of the german ships from war diaries, operation order...

Here, too:

Thank you for clearing that!!

It would save a lot of time and work for people if you tell what literature you already have. An account from "HMS Rodney at war" for a bombardement from 9th july, 1944 on Caen: The story comes from a British who hided himself in Caen and was given food by a french family. He observed most...

Are you talking about this single sentence? "In a film on the submarine warfare Andrew Williams interviewed a crew member of Walker´s destroyer who witnessed that Walker had given orders to push surviving German submariners back into the sea when they did not immediately disclose the number of ...

Hello! In a war diary of the british ww2-submarine HMS Torbay an underwater gun ist mentioned. "Aft underwater gun damaged" and "after underwater signal gun damaged" are the complete terms. What kind of weapon or better apparatus is it and has anyone a picture and description of ...

According to the war diary from PG which I downloaded here: --> http://www.kbismarck.com/archives/index.html the heavy flak fired with batteries B (8 rounds) and D (68 rounds) on PoW and afterwards fired with battery C on the Sunderland.

RF wrote:delcyross, I am not aware of flak guns being used in this battle - surely the range is too great anyway?

According to the war diary Prinz Eugen fired 74 rounds from the heavy flak when battle range was down to about 14.000 m.

Were Raven/Roberts a little bit confused about Achilles ? Or am I? If I understand them correct, the Leander -Class had 4 x 4" Mk V in single mountings Mk IV when completed. In the main chapter about this class they write: "This took the form of replacing the 4in single mounts by 4in twins...