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Ehm... did you check?

Ehm... did you check?

If you already knew the point, why did you ask me to 'elaborate' it?

'Elaborate' to me means something like: 'Uhm, I never before heard something like this strange theory of yours, so please explain it to us'.

However: please excuse me if I offended you.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Hello , my name is Davide Pastore.
I am a Lieutenant Colonel in Italian Air Force (as per my avatar) and I have a deep interest in military history.
I hope I can be of help here.

Jason Pipes wrote:I have the entire series of Gröner's books

Could you please check this one too ?

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...

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...

I can add that Eric Gröner's 'Die Deutschen Kriegschiffe 1815-1945' lists also some Siebel assigned in 1941 to both Bau-Btl. 86 and Bau-Btl. 128.

(Unfortunately I have not the relevant volume, but only a few photocopies, so my knowledge is fragmentary)

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 ...

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 ...