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by ufo
Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:19 am
Forum: Naval History Post-1945
Topic: Operation Mariner
Replies: 8
Views: 13650

The battleships - well - as they mention it explicitly in the text - may be they were playing the surface raiders? 1941 was just twelve years past. And Naval High Commands change ideas and concepts very very slowly. Alternatively - having the Americans (and their Pacific experience) around - they al...
by ufo
Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:41 am
Forum: Naval History Post-1945
Topic: Operation Mariner
Replies: 8
Views: 13650

Few lines only - but may be some information you did not have before?
http://www.nato.int/archives/1st5years/chapters/9.htm

Ciao,
Ufo
by ufo
Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:20 am
Forum: Warship Photos
Topic: Photo Quiz #2
Replies: 12
Views: 14570

Not that we have not tried everything :wink: ; I'll throw in:
HMS Illustrious at Vickers Barrow in Furness at April 5th 1939.

I am sure it is not HMS Indomitable but for the other Sisters ... well, bit of an educated guess.

Ufo
by ufo
Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:17 am
Forum: Warship Photos
Topic: Photo Quiz #2
Replies: 12
Views: 14570

Hey, don't rush it!
I admit we are back to square one but there is hope left :?

Illustrious class?
That would leave us with the which one, where and when to sort out ... only!
Oh gosh - I am so useless when it comes to carriers :(

Ufo
by ufo
Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:53 pm
Forum: Warship Photos
Topic: Photo Quiz #2
Replies: 12
Views: 14570

Impressive detail! Before you figure out who the guy with the yellow tie and the funny socks is, who stands to the next of the lady in blue, allow me to voice a tiny, tiny doubt. It looks so close! But then – there are two incy wincy details that puzzle me: The openings in the bow! Ark Royal had the...
by ufo
Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:15 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Bismarck proper name "He" or "She"
Replies: 30
Views: 52268

It seems to be a catching topic – it comes up ever now and then. And every time thanks to Müllenheim-Rechenberg the might and majesty of Bismarck is mentioned. Though now, thanks to Josés great web page, we all have to possibility to read through some war diaries. One registers that whenever Bismarc...
by ufo
Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:10 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: What's a Bismarck to do?
Replies: 22
Views: 10958

Voila: http://forum.axishistory.com/ It stretches out over all aspects of the Axis forces and campaigns. Under the first header ‘Axis History’ you find the Kriegsmarine. There covered you find a wide range from U-boats to never-weres; strategies to building details. And as usual: ‘Bismarck’ is menti...
by ufo
Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:48 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: What's a Bismarck to do?
Replies: 22
Views: 10958

Afraid of taking hits ?

I think they may well have benefited from such an adventure. But I think there can be few doubts they would have lost the odd heavy unit. The gain though would have been freeing up massive army units for an attack on Moscow or for cutting the Murmansk lifeline. But the different German military bran...
by ufo
Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:03 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: What's a Bismarck to do?
Replies: 22
Views: 10958

I have to say I see the Bismarck class much more in a role in commerce warfare than just as a bottle opener to prevent being thoroughly bottled and corked in the Heligoland Bight. I agree on the twins having a somewhat strange in-between role not being ships of the line nor being raiders by design. ...