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If you can find a copy of the March, 1984 "Proceedings of the US Naval Institute" there was an article titled "Where Were Those Argentine Subs?" Iirc, it had an interview with the captain of ARA San Luis. I do know that San Luis made a torpedo attack against British ships at 1005...

Awfully sporting of the Jerries to paint a torpedo aim-point on the side of their battleship for us.

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Assuming Prinz Eugen stays with Bismarck, and the rudder hit does occur, how feasible would it be for the cruiser to tow the battleship toward Brest, at least until they can get under air cover and other units can arrive to assist?

The cruisers are not going to get close enough to use torpedoes. There is no reason for Scharnhorst to close the range; quite the contrary. Unless Scharnhorst suffers a hit to the fore top director, I can't see any way the British are going to win this one. If the Germans are smart they keep the ra...

Yeah, that brings back some memories. The roll didn't bother me, but the pitch - Oh god, the pitch... With enough Dramamine in me it could be kinda fun. My berthing space was way forward, at the bottom of a ladder (that's a steep stairway to you land-lubbers). Going up one deck, if you timed it righ...

One thing that has struck me as odd about the attack on the Musahi - A bomb caused her to lose speed due to boiler room damage. There is no way even a 1760 pound AP bomb should have been able to pierce her deck armor. But the boiler room was not truly damaged, other than steam was pouring out in it...

It would have been difficult to do so. The only witnesses were those engaged. I noticed that in the above video links, they described the damage, but avoided calling them "kills".

I might add the comparative losses of both sides in Coral Sea and the slow rate of Japanese pilot replacement was a foreboding of the future, a death spiral that Japanese Naval Aviation would never recover from. It was bad enough for the Japanese that an SBD pilot by the name of "Swede" V...

Thank you for the well researched reply Rick-which tells me a great deal of something that I had little or no knowledge of ie. the ramming of propellant charges.However I return to your final statement which says "there is a whole lot more to this story".Would you be so kind as to enlarge...

Sandia National Lab was able to replicate the explosion. The key variables were the individual powder bags and how they were rammed into the barrel. See this training film from 1955: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OmOQs0ziSU The bags Each powder bag was approximately 18 inches long and 18 inches i...

The author of that article, Craig L. Symonds recently published The Battle of Midway , in which he uses Parshall & Tully's research on the Japanese and combines it with his own research into the Hornet's "flight to nowhere" to make one of the most complete narratives of the battle yet ...

But they played a KEY role in the battle of Denmark Strait, ... they have been crucial factors. I disagree. Yes, they caused a major fire on Hood, but that fire had no bearing on the magazine explosion deep in the bowels of the ship. If Hood had not blown-up, or if a similar UP fire had occurred on...

A story about this was published in the alternative history anthology Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Decisions of World War II . The story ("The Little Admiral, 1939: Hitler and the German Navy" by Wade Dudley) has young Hitler joining the navy instead of the army. Among the changes thi...

Very illuminating!