Littorio is fully worked up.Ah, okay. How many battleships do the Italians have left now?
Roma has been completed but no one would readily offer her as battleworthy.
Littorio is fully worked up.Ah, okay. How many battleships do the Italians have left now?
Littorio is fully worked up.
Roma has been completed but no one would readily offer her as battleworthy.
Yep --So the other 5 BB's have been sunk?
The Allies had been taking a good hard crack at them. The daily H&I artillery allotment was 5,000 to 10,000+ shells and 200+ fighter bomber to medium bomber sorties. That is just normal harrassment operations. Large scale operations (several have occurred) are 100,000 shell days with 1,000+ sorties in BAI or CASDamnably unsporting of those Axis Chaps to surrender before the Allies hadhthe chsnce to have a proper crack at them.
The Allies had been taking a good hard crack at them. The daily H&I artillery allotment was 5,000 to 10,000+ shells and 200+ fighter bomber to medium bomber sorties. That is just normal harrassment operations. Large scale operations (several have occurred) are 100,000 shell days with 1,000+ sorties in BAI or CAS
Port Blair, Andaman Islands December 22, 1942
The flying boats were keeping a close watch over the invasion convoy that had passed through the waters. The Far East Fleet was far away, the heavy forces concentrating in the Java Sea, so only local forces and the light escorts of old cruisers and obsolete destroyers screened the 8,000 men who would be fired from the sea and into the vital organs of the enemy at impossibly and ungentlemanly close range. Few submarines had been seen in the Bay off Bengal. German signals were heard just as frequently as Japanese signals. The intercepts had identified at least two submarines that might be a threat a week ago, so the amphibians maintained their watch as the assault ships headed east at eleven knots.
She has firm claims on a third kill (https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/keynes-cruisers.388788/page-92#post-14556178) and at least another possible https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/keynes-cruisers.388788/page-468#post-17421958The old 4 stacker Campbeltown is having an illustrious career in TTL. Sinking 2 U-boats is a big accomplishment. Possibly more useful than wrecking a drydock?
Squid and Hedgehog. Superior weapons than depth charges. The sonar/asdic operator won't lose the contact during an attack if they miss. And if they hit? Even just one hit can sink a U-boat.
Just realized something--films like The Railway Man and Bridge on the River Kwai are butterflied away, due to the Allies' doing much better against Japan ITTL...
Ron Swanson is saddened by this.No Bridge on the River Kwai, I need an unlike button now.