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Nikademus -> RE: Torpedo Magnet "Record"? (6/22/2006 7:11:29 PM)
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The battle turn maneuver did save the German fleet, but the credit doesn't go to Scheer. He had to fall back on it....twice after falling into the same trap again and finding himself the target of Jellicoe's deployed line. As i mentioned, Scheer himself admitted postwar that had he handled his fleet the way he did at Jutland during peacetime, he would have been relieved of command. The battle turn saved his (and the HSF's) collective butts but it doesn't make him brilliant.
As Massie concluded in his book (Castles of Steel), Hipper beat Beatty and Jellicoe beat Scheer.
Things might have gone better for the British had Beatty not screwed up and gone charging off seeking glory and done his job instead, giving Jellicoe proper intel. (Leaving Evans-Thomas behind was another big boo boo of his as well)
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