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I'm curious to know the extent of POW's gunnery exercises during the weeks prior to the DS engagement. Was it, A: Sail up and down firing often, or B: Sail up and down firing seldom, examine and fix/adjust things then fire again. Please understand I'm not disputing that POW did more gunnery exercisi...

I'm assuming Wake-Walker was given the original orders by the Admiralty to shadow Bismarck and Prinz Eugen until they where superseded by Holland's 'battle orders'. When the firepower advantage disappeared with the loss of Hood could he have just defaulted back to his earlier 'shadow' orders until n...