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so it is... and yeah that is a lot of 6 inch shells going down range at a poor German 1,000 ton torpedo boat

assuming of course in the crummy weather endemic to the area they actually could find the enemy

authors notes: It will be rare that you will ever see American Standard class Battleships refered to 'as racing by" (chuckle) At this point the British have the best radar (including gunnery radar), while the German naval radar is somewhat inferior and the US Navy is about where the Germans...

Contact Night November 12/13 Battle of Ushant It is 2315 hours when radar operators aboard the HMS Dido detect several unknown ships at a range of 50 miles with the Type 281 radar. The bogies are immediately reclassified as targets as it becomes clear that all of the minesweepers and sloops it...

The Germans are indeed about to turn north, and to answer your question, my reading of the chart, with swells and waves (and the wind) coming from the southwest, the Germans want about 20 miles or so of distance from the dangerous ground around Ushant I am assuming Uboat deployments at this...

The Home Fleet is on alert as a backup if the Germans shoot through the Channel or make a break for the Atlantic Coastal Command at least is more alert than during OTL Operation Cerebus Initially though, both sides are going to see how well their radar works (aboard the CL Dido and aboard the...

missed in edit, kindly pointed out to me and since fixed Perils on working on two parts of the story this week

thanks, think I got them all

authors notes; The Bay of Biscay is a not a fun place to steam in the Fall and Winter and indeed early Spring. It gets storms right off the Atlantic, and the swells from Atlantic storms plus wave action added to that from winds and local storms. The weather above is not a gale, but just...

The opening moves November 12, 1941 The Allied naval forces are all approaching and some are within range of long range Luftwaffe patrol planes as of midday. The Allied surface groups are all steaming at 15 knots and the minesweeping groups are the closest to the French coast. All of the Allied...

best information I could find is that the overwhelming majority of the He115s are in Norway, the Baltic or along the North Sea Coast. As the Channel Dash is about to start, those aircraft have been concentrated for that and will not reach the battle area in time for the battle in the Bay of...

An overview of Canadian war production https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/historical-sheets/material https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_in_World_War_II#Mobilization_and_deployment as of 1941, the Canadians are in about the same shape as their American neighbors... still...

available vs operational (Servicable) is being considered as I game out and write up the battle

weirdly enough they were used to beat up the British during the embarrassing Dodecanese Campaign in 1944 by Fliegerkorps X The HE115 is also painfully slow and vulnerable to effective AAA and fighter cover

I have outlined what is happening the Pacific in the immediate 6 months leading to Dec 8 but write up will be after I finish Chariot, a special chapter on the US Coast Guard (because I found a wonderful source today), and some other stuff happening in the Atlantic and Europe until the end of 1941

corrected while I was gaming it out I will be going back and making needed edits after I complete the write up (another day or two) Saw a wonderful youtube video talking about the best AA guns a few weeks ago and yeah, the 5/38 is awesome especially with proximity rounds To bad I have no idea...

thanks for posting the maps... I have good maps, but not from an electronic source and have been looking for some to use for this to demonstrate what is going on Working up and writing up the action, still got at least another day to go for that write up

yeah, the Germans used anything remotely useful..... French artillery, tanks and trucks served on the Eastern Front and were still in considerable numbers in Normandy in 1944 plus a lot of repurposed Danish and Dutch ships ended up as flak ships and then there were the Italian ships they...

oops, mistyped (west instead of east) The Americans are short of escorts (as everyone has noticed) but the British have Force H to draw on for this mission and thus units from it with the Wasp and 2 CA attached Cooke, like Paulus and Percival, are those examples of outstanding (or at least...

yep Pedestal was a blood bath and Pedastal and Crete are roughly this time period in terms of Flak vs Strike aircraft in effectiveness The USN cruisers and destroyers are reasonably well defended for 1941, not even close to how well they will be defended by late 42 early 43. The USN...