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Post by lordroel on Aug 25, 2020 14:44:42 GMT
A couple of small typos in:
Assume this is just a missing j. Good to see some success against the U boats. Also
Should this be runner?
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Post by stevep on Aug 26, 2020 11:08:31 GMT
lordroel , In today's WWII post did you mean to have it say:
The 1st sentence questions when the target ship is sunk. The 2nd states it was damaged but survived. It could be that your pointing out some sources say it was sunk - regardless of what date that occurred - but that it actually made it to port for repairs but just sounds a bit odd.
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Post by lordroel on Aug 26, 2020 13:36:41 GMT
lordroel , In today's WWII post did you mean to have it say:
The 1st sentence questions when the target ship is sunk. The 2nd states it was damaged but survived. It could be that your pointing out some sources say it was sunk - regardless of what date that occurred - but that it actually made it to port for repairs but just sounds a bit odd. Steve
Thanks, will edit it. Also the US Civil War in real time i planned will now become This Day in United States Civil War (1861 to 1865), like the This Day In United States Naval History thread that is ending in Novemeber. |
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Post by stevep on Aug 27, 2020 13:50:23 GMT
lordroel , In today's WWII post did you mean to have it say:
The 1st sentence questions when the target ship is sunk. The 2nd states it was damaged but survived. It could be that your pointing out some sources say it was sunk - regardless of what date that occurred - but that it actually made it to port for repairs but just sounds a bit odd. Steve
Thanks, will edit it. Also the US Civil War in real time i planned will now become This Day in United States Civil War (1861 to 1865), like the This Day In United States Naval History thread that is ending in Novemeber.
Ouch that's going to be another big operation. Are you sure your not taking on too much?
In today's WWII post you have:
I wonder if this should be that Phoebe makes it back to Alexandria rather than Tobruk? Doubt if damaged enough, as a relatively small cruiser is likely to be by a torpedo, it would continue heading towards Trobuk where if still there at daylight its likely to be a target for the Axis air power.
Checking the wiki entry for the ship, HMS_Phoebe it makes no mention of any such damage, although the ship is damaged by a U boat near the Congo mouth in 23 October 1942 and has to make for New York for repairs then so it might have a season ticket there. Mind you the article mentions her carrying the king and queen to Belfast in 1942, with accompanying image, so that could be after its 1st damage, mentioned in your post is repaired and she does that before returning to the Med.
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Post by lordroel on Aug 27, 2020 14:05:11 GMT
Thanks, will edit it. Also the US Civil War in real time i planned will now become This Day in United States Civil War (1861 to 1865), like the This Day In United States Naval History thread that is ending in Novemeber. Ouch that's going to be another big operation. Are you sure your not taking on too much? It going to be like This Day In United States Naval History with a day focusing on what happen on that day with pictures and maps, it will run from April 12th 2021 to April 11th 2022, was thinking about doing it the full run but this might also be nice. |
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Post by stevep on Aug 27, 2020 14:08:34 GMT
Ouch that's going to be another big operation. Are you sure your not taking on too much? It going to be like This Day In United States Naval History with a day focusing on what happen on that day with pictures and maps, it will run from April 12th 2021 to April 11th 2022, was thinking about doing it the full run but this might also be nice.
OK sorry. Feeling a bit worse for wear today so obviously misread it. That's significantly less demanding. Best of luck with it.
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Post by lordroel on Aug 27, 2020 14:14:47 GMT
It going to be like This Day In United States Naval History with a day focusing on what happen on that day with pictures and maps, it will run from April 12th 2021 to April 11th 2022, was thinking about doing it the full run but this might also be nice. OK sorry. Feeling a bit worse for wear today so obviously misread it. That's significantly less demanding. Best of luck with it.
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Will start next year, so plenty time to work on it while thinking of other projects in realtime i can do. |
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Post by stevep on Aug 28, 2020 10:58:47 GMT
On today's WWII post a small issue and a comment.
I suspect there's a heading missing here - possibly US-Japanese relations?
Now there's a what-if to ponder.  Either Mussolini fouls up and crashes the plane, possibly killing Hitler, a fair number of the Nazi hierarchy and himself or they run into a Soviet fighter and get shot down. Although I would suspect they were heavily escorted.
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Post by lordroel on Aug 28, 2020 11:06:27 GMT
On today's WWII post a small issue and a comment.
I suspect there's a heading missing here - possibly US-Japanese relations? Now there's a what-if to ponder. Either Mussolini fouls up and crashes the plane, possibly killing Hitler, a fair number of the Nazi hierarchy and himself or they run into a Soviet fighter and get shot down. Although I would suspect they were heavily escorted. Steve
Will edit the part you mentioned. At least the Germans had a good scare with Mussolini at the helm and yes it is a nice What If that until know was know by us. |
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Post by stevep on Aug 30, 2020 8:52:52 GMT
lordroel , On today's US Navy post the last entry is
I'm wondering whether that is a typo or auto-corrupt for dhow given the location of the incident?
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Post by lordroel on Aug 30, 2020 8:58:43 GMT
lordroel , On today's US Navy post the last entry is I'm wondering whether that is a typo or auto-corrupt for dhow given the location of the incident? Steve
Think you are correct stevep in that schould be a dhow and not a bow wich as far as I know is not any type of schip I know, wil edit it. |
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Post by stevep on Aug 30, 2020 9:08:21 GMT
On today's WWII post
This shows how long, with the Med effectively closed to shipping, how long it takes to reinforce Singapore from the UK, a little over 2 months. 
Very funny but a good point. Not sure whether they would have opened fire and if so what the political reaction would be. If they stopped an Hipper in Denmark Straits the New Mexico couldn't keep up with it so unless there were cruisers with the squadron contact may have been lost fairly quickly. Destroyers could track it if the weather conditions were good but might prove vulnerable if an Hipper turned on them.
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Post by lordroel on Aug 30, 2020 9:18:30 GMT
Very funny but a good point. Not sure whether they would have opened fire and if so what the political reaction would be. If they stopped an Hipper in Denmark Straits the New Mexico couldn't keep up with it so unless there were cruisers with the squadron contact may have been lost fairly quickly. Destroyers could track it if the weather conditions were good but might prove vulnerable if an Hipper turned on them. Steve
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Post by stevep on Aug 30, 2020 9:36:43 GMT
Very funny but a good point. Not sure whether they would have opened fire and if so what the political reaction would be. If they stopped an Hipper in Denmark Straits the New Mexico couldn't keep up with it so unless there were cruisers with the squadron contact may have been lost fairly quickly. Destroyers could track it if the weather conditions were good but might prove vulnerable if an Hipper turned on them. Steve
Also depends on what German orders where on being faced with US warships.
Possibly but I very much doubt a cruiser would mix it with a force including a BB. Unless there was a genuine case if mistaken identity, which might well be the case if there was fog or other bad weather.
If they did fire 1st however Roosevelt has his Casus belli and the US is in the European war ~3 months earlier, although possibly with markedly less public support than after Pearl OTL. However as I understand it at this point Hitler was still giving orders to avoid a clash with the US pretty much at all costs. [Think he was still assuming that the Soviets would collapse and also didn't know of course that there would be war in the Pacific, or how dramatic early Japanese successes would be.]
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Post by lordroel on Aug 30, 2020 9:54:59 GMT
Also depends on what German orders where on being faced with US warships. Possibly but I very much doubt a cruiser would mix it with a force including a BB. Unless there was a genuine case if mistaken identity, which might well be the case if there was fog or other bad weather. If they did fire 1st however Roosevelt has his Casus belli and the US is in the European war ~3 months earlier, although possibly with markedly less public support than after Pearl OTL. However as I understand it at this point Hitler was still giving orders to avoid a clash with the US pretty much at all costs. [Think he was still assuming that the Soviets would collapse and also didn't know of course that there would be war in the Pacific, or how dramatic early Japanese successes would be.]
I do remember that somebody on The Naval Fiction Board wrote a TL about the United States going after Bismarck if I remember it right. |
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Either Mussolini fouls up and crashes the plane, possibly killing Hitler, a fair number of the Nazi hierarchy and himself or they run into a Soviet fighter and get shot down. Although I would suspect they were heavily escorted.