Reading post 519569 in main thread: December 7th 1941. A day which...
June 22nd, 2009  
perseus
 
 
And don't forget the effectiveness of submarine attacks on major ships: Royal Oak, Barham, Ark Royal, Eagle, Wasp, Couragious, Shinano, Kongo, Unryu were all were sunk by submarines. Germany didn't have too many capital ships, but plenty of U boats. Perhaps, these could have been used more offensively. For example an axis ship drawing a chasing allied one through a Wolf pack.


I'm all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. Frank Lloyd Wright

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