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This is essentially a repost and rewrite of a comment I made slightly earlier which seems to have disappeared into cyber-space. Should it re-appear, my apologies for posting twice. It appears that I may have been 'cross posting' with other correspondents. Anyhow, here we are again... I am sorry tha...

Hello Paul L, Peddle what stuff? That real human beings are killed and maimed in naval battles and that they are real events that happened, and that we are not talking about "annihilating" sprites in video games or playing with toys in the bath? :D As for emphasising the bravery and sacri...

Can a super accurate,minute by minute second by second map based on a 75 year old battle where 2 of combatants documents lay at the bottom of the cold Atlantic be produced? That realy doesn't answer the question I posted, does it ? I don't know why I smell another (concealed) detractor. Life is too...

Hello everybody, @ Alecsandros, you wrote : Antonio and Alberto's maps and analysis are simply the best that exist today, and that's all there is to it. Many thanks for you nice compliments, we have put a lot of efforts into this historical re-construction and the results so far are very satisfacto...

In summary there will never be agreement because there cannot be. You either believe that a battle map can be a rock solid foundation that can be built on or you don't . If this event had occurred in the era of GPS and computers I would say yes it could. That Mr Jurens has said that its almost impo...

Hello everybody, @ Bill Jurens, just as I was expecting and we can all read hare above now, the guy does not have anything to be presented in support of his " hypothesis". Simply because nothing can support an " hypothesis" that is largely demonstrated being impossible by the ev...

Hello All, Once again judicious editing of a witness' words in order to perpetrate a distorted view of occurrences: One, two salvoes burst away, then the specialist [painter] hurries back to capture a view of the impacts at the enemy. The next sentence refers to Prinz Eugen's first salvo occurring ...

RN capital ship main batteries, certainly of the early war period, did not feature RPC capability. I might be mistaken, but I don't think that RPC became available for RN battleship main batteries until Vanguard. "Weaving" was a standard evasive tactic by German warships under close fire ...

Hi Byron, thanks for the translation of the whole passage (not easy/reliable to use google translator...). Based on it, the shell entered XXI compartment and the exit position is not specified. However, being both the compartments XXI and XX filled by water, it's evident that the shell severed the ...

Great post.

In response to Alexandros' memo of Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:59 pm (we seem to have no numbering scheme to enable posts to be identified more easily): I did not respond in detail basically because I have neither the time nor the energy to engage myself extensively in this discussion. It's easy -- as I hav...

Demanding binary answers is not often the way to move a complex debate forward to a successful conclusion. In fact, it's usually counterproductive. Hope this helps... Bill Jurens It would have helped IF you wouldn't have passed over the obvious relevant passages from PoW's gunnery report, that expl...

Why is British evidence wrong and German evidence taken as gospel? It's not. For the answer to your questions, you're going to have to go through all the 4 years of debates here on Kbismarck. OR, better still, just wait for the book. I think I would be 75 by the time I had read 4 years worth of thr...

Evidence of a witness cannot change what is shown by a film or a photo .... :negative: What Brooke states is another interesting and wrong testimony (as most of testimonies), but I eagerly wait for this guy's reconstruction of the battle showing us when and where the photos and the film has been ta...

Hello everybody, HMSVF wrote: "Yet I never seen the RN supporters use the word “coward” or “timid” about a German officer" Come on, try at least to be objective and do not play victim role. :negative: They lightly used the word "Nazi" against German officers who where wearing an...