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MauserMike
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I see your HMS Hood, raise you with 38cm guns
MauserMike
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Yeah but they had to sink their own ship 
Don't forget the Graf Spee too
Jokes aside, the loss of life was horrendous on both sides. 1400 British sailors dead in an instant by cordite...
Don't forget the Graf Spee too
Jokes aside, the loss of life was horrendous on both sides. 1400 British sailors dead in an instant by cordite...
Yeah but they had to sink their own ship
Don't forget the Graf Spee too
Jokes aside, the loss of life was horrendous on both sides. 1400 British sailors dead in an instant by cordite...
Indeed. Tragic loss of life. However many of the german raiders made it back safely with their crews. A part of the navel war many have forgotten.
She was wrecked and had the sh*t shot our of her. She was also torpedoed and was floundering. I have read that the engineers had opened the sea cocks as well to prevent her from being captured. So your guess as to 'what' sank the Bismarck is as good as anyone's.
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Fairey Swordfish from Defiant(?) took out her steering gear with torpedoes. With the rudder hard over and every ship in the British Empire on their way to take potshots at her, the crew abandoned ship and she was scuttled. I read somewhere that the "neutral" USA was tracking her and relaying her position to the Brits.
Fairey Swordfish from Defiant(?) took out her steering gear with torpedoes. With the rudder hard over and every ship in the British Empire on their way to take potshots at her, the crew abandoned ship and she was scuttled. I read somewhere that the "neutral" USA was tracking her and relaying her position to the Brits.
The carrier was the Ark Royal. And two battleships were hammering her!
Then Johnny Horton made a song....
Listened to it so many times as a kid it'll be playing in my head when I'm old & grey.
Listened to it so many times as a kid it'll be playing in my head when I'm old & grey.
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popular name for that aircraft was the "stringbag" because of all the bracing wires.
It was believed the germans missed them because their computer directed guns wern't programmed to shoot at anything that SLOW!
It was believed the germans missed them because their computer directed guns wern't programmed to shoot at anything that SLOW!
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No.6 Commando shortly before arriving at Sword Beach
Troops of the Polish Carpathian Brigade arrive to Tobruk. Polish Independent Carpathian Brigade (Polish Samodzielna Brygada Strzelców Karpackich, SBSK) was a Polish military unit formed in 1940 in French Syria of the Polish soldiers exiled after the Invasion of Poland in 1939 as part of the Polish Army in France.
After its capitulation and the annulment of all France's pacts with Poland and the United Kingdom, the commander of the Armée du Levant General Eugène Mittelhauser decided to support the new Vichy government of Philippe Pétain while the Poles were ordered by Sikorski to leave French territory. On June 30, 1940 the brigade defected to Palestine, where it joined the British forces stationed there. Initially composed of 319 officers and 3437 soldiers, it was soon reinforced to roughly 5000 men. Among the distinctive features of the unit was a high morale of the soldiers, all of whom were volunteers. In addition, roughly 25% were well educated, a thing uncommon in European armies of the time.
A great read is "For Your Freedom and Ours" The book about the Polish armed forces WW2. I takes you from the first shot in 1939 to the end of the war.
The Polish story was swept under the rug after the war and this book gives a good insight into that bit of obscured history.
The Polish story was swept under the rug after the war and this book gives a good insight into that bit of obscured history.
