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- Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:30 am
- Forum: Kriegsmarine
- Topic: MFP buil at Palermo
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Re: MFP buil at Palermo
Ehm... did you check?
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:29 am
- Forum: Unit Histories, Feldpost Numbers & Orders of Battle
- Topic: 5./Bau-Btl. 85
- Replies: 7
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Re: 5./Bau-Btl. 85
Ehm... did you check?
- Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:10 pm
- Forum: World War I
- Topic: For Phylo!!!! BATTLECRUISERS!!!
- Replies: 29
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- Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:05 pm
- Forum: World War I
- Topic: For Phylo!!!! BATTLECRUISERS!!!
- Replies: 29
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Uh gee Davide, should I take the rest of your post in the same vein? The point looks obvious, if one thinks about costs. IIRC (vague memories of Ritter's mammoth work) the army foresaw the problem since the beginning of Tirpitz era, but the Kaiser really wanted the battleships (for reasons better e...
- Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:22 pm
- Forum: World War I
- Topic: For Phylo!!!! BATTLECRUISERS!!!
- Replies: 29
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I hope you didn't suppose Tirpitz's toys were given to him by Santa Claus... 1) Take the money wasted into those useless ships 2) Spend it in the army budget 3) Take the two-three extra armies so created and place them on the German right flank along the Marne 4) notwithstanding the little fact that...
- Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:32 am
- Forum: World War I
- Topic: For Phylo!!!! BATTLECRUISERS!!!
- Replies: 29
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I don't see how the British could have used less than two battlecruisers to attack one Seydlitz or Derfflinger. In their shoes, I won't. I would have kept the extant three-groups divisional structure, and send them on chase in the Atlantic. Meanwhile the two dozens+ dreadnoughts wait at Scapa Flow,...
- Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:10 pm
- Forum: World War I
- Topic: For Phylo!!!! BATTLECRUISERS!!!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15672
Re: For Phylo!!!! BATTLECRUISERS!!!
Most modern shipologists (I just made that term up for this thread!) regard the Derfflinger class as the ultimate WWI class of WWI battlecruisers. Personally, I don't agree, as S.M.S. Seydlitz seems to me to be just as survivable a design. What are your thoughts? The disposition of guns is Seydlitz...
- Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:20 pm
- Forum: What's New
- Topic: Welcome to the forum, tell us about yourself!
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- Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:54 pm
- Forum: Unit Histories, Feldpost Numbers & Orders of Battle
- Topic: 5./Bau-Btl. 85
- Replies: 7
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Could you please check this one too ?Jason Pipes wrote:I have the entire series of Gröner's books
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:50 pm
- Forum: Kriegsmarine
- Topic: MFP buil at Palermo
- Replies: 3
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MFP buil at Palermo
According to Gröner (page 30 of volume ?) the following Marinefährprähmen were built at Palermo: F 146-160 (1941) F 343-362 (1942) F 477-484 (1942) F 776-770 (later) However Italian documents I have found (dated spring 1942) show plans for seven additional MFPs (F 540-546) to be built there too, dur...
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:36 pm
- Forum: Unit Histories, Feldpost Numbers & Orders of Battle
- Topic: 5./Bau-Btl. 85
- Replies: 7
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I have part of the volume about Siebelfähren (pages 47-52 of volume ? of the 8-volumes serie) where at page 48 he classified such craft by year-model number. However in an older (1938) 2-volumes serie he classified them by Type (I to X). I would like to know the Type of SFs assigned to 5./Bau-Btl. 8...
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:56 am
- Forum: Unit Histories, Feldpost Numbers & Orders of Battle
- Topic: 5./Bau-Btl. 85
- Replies: 7
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- Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:23 am
- Forum: Unit Histories, Feldpost Numbers & Orders of Battle
- Topic: 5./Bau-Btl. 85
- Replies: 7
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5./Bau-Btl. 85
Can anyone help me about the equipment of 5./Bau-Btl. 85 during its service in North Africa? According to Lexikon der Wehrmacht it had 'Fähren und Landungsboote eine 5. Kompanie' . I would like to know: - how many such crafts had it? - what Type/model were them? - were such crafts employed by other ...
- Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:18 pm
- Forum: Unit Histories, Feldpost Numbers & Orders of Battle
- Topic: 15. Panzer Division in Africa
- Replies: 19
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Re: More Detail
Here is a bit more detail on the arrival of the German units in North Africa at Tripoli in the beginning. I can offer the likely composition of such convoys, according to USMM' 'La Difesa del Traffico con l'Africa Settentrionale' . I listed only German cargo ships, assuming only them were used. It ...