Picture of the day
- Thread starter jwhc
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That was HMS Hood that exploded like that. Bismark slipped under the waves a few days later after a heavy pounding by British battleships and reputedly a German order to scuttle because they were afraid the Royal Navy was still able to board with cutlasses and tow a prize to England.
Rod B
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The kettenkrad uses the front wheel to effect left/right turns up to around 5° then the track braking takes over for further turning. The drive sprockets are also brake drums, but what is not seen is the rear idler wheel that adjusts track tension. As a Kettenkrad is a neat 1M wide, the back half of this vehicle (picture) could be something cobbled together and is unsprung as the torsion bars are not that long for the width in the pic. I have a good collection of pictures of "cars" made out of ex-wehrmacht kübels and schwimmers and to say the need for a car made for some interesting conversions from crude to very presentable. As for what is supposed to be the motor and lay out of the drive train in the picture is anyones guess.
bdft
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You forget the Stringbags off Ark Royal that torpedoed her and damaged her steering gear, preventing her from maneuvering. The next morning King George V and Rodney supported by Norfolk and Dorsetshire damaged her so badly that the crew scuttled her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_battle_of_Bismarck
fingers284
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There is a Canadian connection to that Swordfish torpedo attack. The man that was running the radar on the ship that directed the planes to the Bismark was a Canadian, my wife worked with his daughter . I believe he was Canadian Navy but was optioned to British Navy because of his radar specialty.
