Hello everybody,
OK, now I see that the event sequence after the turn away 160 degrees to port ordered by Capt Leach seems to have been accepted by everybody, just as it should be given the official evidences available.
Thorsten has showed us a very good info about the PoW salvo 16th and the Bismarck first salvo landing on PoW with the hit on the compass platform occurred at 06.00 and 50 seconds,...very, very close to were I have always been placed here ( between salvo 15 and 16 of PoW
) realizing it from the events logic thru the witness narrative and official reports. Good enough this one too, .. and now we have PoW course on that exact moment precisely available, it was 280 degrees.
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Since you now move on the NH 69731 ( or IWM HU 384 ) photo analysis, ... you may want to start from were we left years ago about it :
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1446
Some reccomendations from my side :
1) You must have a good enough photo quality to analyze the smoke if you want to do that, and you have to have it COMPLETE including the TOP clouds.
2) Same is for the PoW identification and the 3 landing shells from Bismarck very close to her.
3) Keep in mind that Bismarck is behind Prinz Eugen on this moment, so PoW wants to hide to Bismarck and not from Prinz Eugen, that is why she turned that way, to follow the smoke and not loose to much speed while doing it.
4) Similarly PoW wanted to fire to Bismarck her 19th salvo ( 1st in Local Control ) of the 2 shells you see falling very short from Bismarck ( this give you also the direction Bismarck is behind the German cruiser )
5) Prinz Eugen has NOT turned yet to starboard ( it will occur at 06.03 and 45 seconds battle time ) and you see her railing and sailing direction very well.
6) I do not provide you more elements about the 2 Hood smoke pillars since it has been already well established before and you can just read it.
Correlating this photo with all other battle elements occurred before and soon after on both sides, it become evident that this battle time photo is positioned at 06.03 and 25 seconds more or less. BEFORE the turn to starboard by Prinz Eugen ( 06.03 and 45 seconds ) and before PoW salvo 20th and 21st of course.
Bye Antonio
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