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- Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:25 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck Photo Quiz
- Replies: 17
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Well actually the cap insignia for the Foreign Service uniform cap was not too unlike that of the Luftwaffe's and can be easily mistaken for eachother. Unfortunately, the photo is rather too small to make out the details of the Hoheitsadler. It is possible that, as prhayes suggested, the other non n...
- Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:05 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck Photo Quiz
- Replies: 17
- Views: 20256
The more I think about it, the more I am certain the officer on the left in nr. 1 is Puttkammer, as he bears the closest resemblance to the following photo of Puttkammer:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=12657
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=12657
- Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:11 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck Photo Quiz
- Replies: 17
- Views: 20256
- Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:37 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck Photo Quiz
- Replies: 17
- Views: 20256
Off hand i would say the first, very tall officer is possibly Lútjens' flag lieutenanty or adjutant judging from the aguillete; 2nd man appears to be a Luftwaffe officer, probably a pilot of one of the Arado's since it seems they group is in front of the main hanger; the third is definitely not a fl...
- Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:49 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Stern section of the Bismarck - question
- Replies: 116
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- Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:34 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Stern section of the Bismarck - question
- Replies: 116
- Views: 61982
Hi Bill, In regards to the discussion of FlaK fire control you are correct. It was the practice during the war for German FlaK, both ashore and afloat, to select a single target either a lone plane or one in a formation and direct four or more guns against that target . In the Luftwaffe FlaK, four w...
- Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:27 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck proper name "He" or "She"
- Replies: 30
- Views: 53334
In German practice, the name of the ship is most usually preceeded by its class or type: Das Schlachtschiff Bismarck Der Kreuzer Admiral Hipper Der Zerstoerer Karl Gallester Das Unterseeboot 123 Das Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee Kreuzer and Zerstoerer are masculine, Boot, and Schiff are neuter in g...
- Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:43 pm
- Forum: Warship Photos
- Topic: Photo Quiz #1
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15000
- Mon Nov 22, 2004 3:27 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: No Swordfish shot down by Bismarck
- Replies: 27
- Views: 40249
The sFlaK fire control system did indeed use a mechanical, analog resolver to work out the basic fire control solution so that the shell would rendezvous with the target, and a predictor which provided continual data for the resolver and fuze setting machines. Even with such a slow aircraft as the S...
- Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:15 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: No Swordfish shot down by Bismarck
- Replies: 27
- Views: 40249
There were some minor differences in the two models of 10,5cm mounts, but not enough to make any real difference in the shooting ability of the two types. Neither type was completely satifactory in regards to traverse and elevations speeds, particularly when the ship was manouvering rapidly while ta...
- Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:24 am
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: 15" Mark I and 38cm SK. C/34 naval guns
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13501
Off hand I would say that both guns were very good, although they somewhat reflect the differing design principles of the originating countries. The 15-in British continued a trend established prior to WW1 in which increasing armour penetrative performance and range was accomplished by introducing a...
- Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:44 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Director Question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4880
Fire control calculations were made in the forward or after Rechenstellen or calculating stations. There were seperate stations for main and secondary low angle batteries, as well as high angle calculating stations for the heavy FlaK battery. There was 100% redundancy as the foreward station was dup...
- Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:35 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Director Question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4880
There were in addiition port and starboard night action directors on each side of the combat bridge gallery around the conning tower and on either side of the after fire control station. The day action positions each had multiple directors within the fire control station, the forward and foretop pos...