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Armour:
Main belt:
4.5-inch (110 mm) with 1-inch (25 mm) closing bulkheads (Berwick, Cumberland, Suffolk, Kent & Cornwall only, from 1935–)
Lower deck:
1.25-inch (32 mm) over machinery
1.5-inch (38 mm) over steering gear
Main box citadels:
1–4-inch (25–102 mm) sides
1-to-2.5-inch (25 to 64 mm) crowns
Turrets:
1-inch (25 mm) faces, sides, rears, crowns & barbettes
 
What's this all about?

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diopter said:
Armour:
Main belt:
4.5-inch (110 mm) with 1-inch (25 mm) closing bulkheads (Berwick, Cumberland, Suffolk, Kent & Cornwall only, from 1935–)
Lower deck:
1.25-inch (32 mm) over machinery
1.5-inch (38 mm) over steering gear
Main box citadels:
1–4-inch (25–102 mm) sides
1-to-2.5-inch (25 to 64 mm) crowns
Turrets:
1-inch (25 mm) faces, sides, rears, crowns & barbettes
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Yes, I saw that too, but take a look at that photo: the armour belt is nowhere to be seen. It's either inside the hull plating, which looks about 1" thick or less judging by the overlap at the seams, or it's below the waterline, and that plane struck above the water line didn't it?

Kamikazes used to splash off the decks of RN aircraft carriers in 1944/45 because they had amoured flight decks, about 3" thick as I recall, but that's not a 3" hull plate, not the one we can see.

Either way, the dent was there years later from photos I saw.
 
The Brazilians sent an Expeditionary Force to Italy in 1944.

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Army, navy, and air force - the full meal deal.

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Damned effective military force, too. Here are Generals Otto Fretter-Pico and Mario Carloni having a bad day at work...

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Brazil.

I knew they went into Italy on the side of the Allies. I didn't know they went in with US equipment. Makes sense though. When I was in Brazil I met a man called Jao Nagel. He fought in Italy for three months in some very harsh conditions. Weather was one huge issue. Especially in the high mountains. He told me he didn't get warm again until he got back to Brazil. He also commented the food they received there was plentiful but always in cans and never enough fish or fruit. He was Italian speaking as his mother went to Brazil during the early 1920s from Corsica. He like many others in the Brazilian Ex Force were Italian speaking and felt that Italy was their second homeland. He also said they were all volunteers. Nice guy and a great miner of diamonds. Brazil is one of the few places in the world where up to date newspapers can be had in a dozen different languages even in the tiny inland villages. Portuguese is supposed to be their national language but like French in Canada it is a bastardized form and would not be readily recognizable to most people from Portugal.
 
Yep, arseholes of the first order. But they had abbreviated lives and died violently. Best of all, they had time to appreciate how severely they'd failed, which is far more satisfying to me than knowing they checked out in a bad way.

Thousand Year Reich, Adolf? How'd that work out for you? And Benny - that project of reviving the Roman Empire - how's that coming along? Ha ha ha, you muderous idiots. Failure across the board, and now one of you is burned to meaningless, unremembered ashes and part of the silt in a Russian river, and the other one spent time in inverted flight in a gas station with the people you'd thought loved you pelting your worthless carcass with rocks.

Makes me smile every time I think of it. :)

Anyhow, pics. You of course know Herman Goering. Did you know about his brother, Albert?

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Albert was the apple that fell on the other side of the tree from Herman. Hated Nazism, used his influence and position to save a significant number of Jews from imprisonment, humiliaiton, and death. Interesting guy, and damned suave.
 
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If Mussolini had not entered the War on Germany's side, he probably would have lasted as long as Salazar or Franco.
 
I thought Hitler lived out his days in Argentina/Chile or some other SA country with fascist leanings. The DNA tests of 'his' remains from the Fuhrer Bunker were proven to be female.
 
Female DNA, Eva Braun's body was burned in that same ditch. Funny they do not talk about that. The dentist that identified Hitler's dentures was he part of that so called escape plan?
 
Re: Hitler. Well, we know that the murdering bastard is dead now, anyway. Sort of too bad that Stalin was able to carry on murdering his own people by the thousands and millions.

Having been born in 1947 in a safe place, small town Saskatchewan, I have never been anywhere remotely close to the death and destruction witnessed by my fellow townspeople. My hometown was chock full of WW1, WW2, and Korean war vets, along with many immigrants from Europe. They are the ones who know suffering.

Since my school days, I have made it a priority to study about the misery and colossal destruction in Europe and the Pacific during the 20th century. I am ever so grateful to the people who tried so hard to stop the murdering, many of whom ended up being murdered themselves.
 
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