Waylander
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Joined: 9/3/2000 From: Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand Status: offline
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All the stuff I have read over the last 4-5 years seems to lean more towards Eugen as being the culprit. maybe its just a fashionable theory, but an 8" shell could certainly do this to Hood's relatively thin armour, if, as was noted, it was a plunging shot. Regardless of who did the dirty deed, both got there come-uppance, Bismark shortly after, and Eugen in Atom bomb tests after the war. The plain fact was that the battlecruiser concept never really worked, as was demonstrated at Dogger bank, Jutland (there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today)and by the "mighty" hood's sad demise. reagrds Waylander
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