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Post by lordroel on Dec 13, 2020 15:52:56 GMT
Had one of my trolls do some checking, according to the USS Erie (PG-50) Wikipedia page: On 13 December 1941, Erie picked up 50 Japanese internees at Puntarenas, from the Costa Rican government. OK many thanks. That makes sense as their presumably migrants working in the country or possibly in part business people/government officials based there caught up in the sudden outbreak of war. Steve
Well the term POWs and internees however is not the same as what i have in the December 12th 1941 update. |
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Post by stevep on Dec 13, 2020 16:01:05 GMT
OK many thanks. That makes sense as their presumably migrants working in the country or possibly in part business people/government officials based there caught up in the sudden outbreak of war. Steve
Well the term POWs and internees however is not the same as what i have in the December 12th 1941 update.
Sorry slightly puzzled here as you don't seem to mention anything about Costa Rico in the post for the 12th Dec? No great problem and I'm going to be off the site for a while while doing other things so won't get back to you for a while.
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Post by lordroel on Dec 13, 2020 16:03:54 GMT
Well the term POWs and internees however is not the same as what i have in the December 12th 1941 update. Sorry slightly puzzled here as you don't seem to mention anything about Costa Rico in the post for the 12th Dec? No great problem and I'm going to be off the site for a while while doing other things so won't get back to you for a while. Steve
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Post by stevep on Dec 14, 2020 16:42:50 GMT
In today's WWI post you have the following paragraph duplicated.
Mr Schröder sounds a very formidable character.  Was his 1st name actually Kick and presumably that means something different in Dutch?
Also an interesting reminder that the war affected just about everybody, including those nations seeking to stay neutral, in various ways.
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Post by lordroel on Dec 14, 2020 17:10:29 GMT
In today's WWI post you have the following paragraph duplicated.
Mr Schröder sounds a very formidable character. Was his 1st name actually Kick and presumably that means something different in Dutch? Also an interesting reminder that the war affected just about everybody, including those nations seeking to stay neutral, in various ways. Steve
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Post by stevep on Dec 15, 2020 11:39:02 GMT
On the dismissal of Sir John French on today's WWI post its not a moment too soon as every source I've seen suggested he was unsuited to the office. If there was anyone who fitted the post-war stereotype of a hidebound cavalry commander sending men over the top to be slaughtered by prepared defences it was him. True he had a difficult position as Britain even more than the continental powers was unprepared for a long attitional conflict but he seems to have been ignorant and small minded. From what I've read he was correct about Haig plotting to replace him. Unfortunately Haig had little more imagination than French and continued unwise offensives on unfavourable ground long after they should have been stopped.
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Post by stevep on Dec 17, 2020 13:10:04 GMT
On today's WWII post you have two mentions of the sinking of U-131. First as the sole entry in the Battle of the Atlantic section then as the 1st paragraph of the Battle of the Med section. There's some slight differences between them, such as the downing of a Martlet fighter by the sub but by and large their a duplication.
Otherwise looks OK. Thanks
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Post by lordroel on Dec 17, 2020 15:26:18 GMT
On today's WWII post you have two mentions of the sinking of U-131. First as the sole entry in the Battle of the Atlantic section then as the 1st paragraph of the Battle of the Med section. There's some slight differences between them, such as the downing of a Martlet fighter by the sub but by and large their a duplication. Otherwise looks OK. Thanks
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Post by stevep on Dec 19, 2020 11:35:31 GMT
On today's WWI thread you have
However who's the enemy here? Is it Germans reporting on Russian losses or Russians on German?
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Post by lordroel on Dec 19, 2020 11:45:52 GMT
On today's WWI thread you have
However who's the enemy here? Is it Germans reporting on Russian losses or Russians on German? Steve
Seems after checking the internet i found more information: Western Russia: Russian penetration north of lake Drisviati (south of Dvinsk) repulsed.
Russians also repelled near mouth of Beresina but German column broken up north of lake Miadzol.
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Post by stevep on Dec 21, 2020 12:01:31 GMT
In today's WWII post you have:
You have this already mentioned, with more details above in the Battle of the Atlantic section of the post.
Also there are two sections which were in yesterday's post:
and
If your aware of this and its because the date of the event(s) could be either day that's fine but just to make you aware.
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Post by lordroel on Dec 21, 2020 15:45:28 GMT
In today's WWII post you have:
You have this already mentioned, with more details above in the Battle of the Atlantic section of the post.
Also there are two sections which were in yesterday's post:
and
If your aware of this and its because the date of the event(s) could be either day that's fine but just to make you aware.
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Post by stevep on Dec 22, 2020 11:23:22 GMT
On today's WWI post a couple of remarks.
a) "Germans active on Yser and Ypres sectors; positions wrecked by Allies." - What do you mean by positions as that sounds odd? Are the Germans rebuilding facilities or defences damaged earlier, the allies, destroying facilities, say by bombardment or something else?
b) Interesting that stormtroopers were appearing as early as this. Their normally associated with 1918 and I remember one book where the author suggested the Germans got the idea from British tactics in 1917 but obviously not the case. Thanks.
In the WWII post
That shows how paranoid the authorities were during this period. One hell of an achievement by him to have a new design test flown that quickly.
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Post by lordroel on Dec 22, 2020 15:15:32 GMT
a) "Germans active on Yser and Ypres sectors; positions wrecked by Allies." - What do you mean by positions as that sounds odd? Are the Germans rebuilding facilities or defences damaged earlier, the allies, destroying facilities, say by bombardment or something else? I tried to find more about this, but except some other sources who say the same thing what i posted i cannot find much, i will try to find more and will update the part if i find anything. |
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Post by stevep on Dec 23, 2020 10:05:46 GMT
a) "Germans active on Yser and Ypres sectors; positions wrecked by Allies." - What do you mean by positions as that sounds odd? Are the Germans rebuilding facilities or defences damaged earlier, the allies, destroying facilities, say by bombardment or something else? I tried to find more about this, but except some other sources who say the same thing what i posted i cannot find much, i will try to find more and will update the part if i find anything.
Sorry for the late response. Got a bit busy with a couple of things yesterday. Don't bother too much if the information isn't easily available. I was assuming there had been a typo somewhere but if the problem is in the original information its not worthwhile spending a lot of time finding out what was going on.
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Was his 1st name actually Kick and presumably that means something different in Dutch?