Attacking A British Convoy III: Atlantic Breakout

Okay, thank you both. I just wanted to make sure I was getting my info right.

Thanks again, :-)

john

The IIIJ has a 50mm L60. I would take that against the Valentine any day.
Might need to hit it in flank, but with the extra 10MPH I would hope I could manoeuvre around it, if my first shell(unluckily) bounced off the frontal armour.
Its puny 2 Pounder would not bother me much I suspect.

@abworsham4 good day my friend.
Never heard that term. Thanks for the update.

@ABWorsham:

I find it strange that the Japanese used the submarine in the war to shell targets rather than hunt shipping lanes.

The use which the Japanese made of their military resources was sometimes odd – or, let’s say, less-than-optimal.  I don’t recall the details, but another example is the fact that Japanese military transport ships shuttling between Japan and the forward areas of operations (like the Solomons and the Dutch East Indies) would sometimes travel completely empty on one leg of the journey because of such factors as lack of coordination or cooperation between the Army and the Navy.  This was an inefficient use of Japan’s transport tonnage. Better planning would have ensured that outward-bound ships were always packed with fresh troops and equipment and that inward-bound ships were always packed with raw materials and other items needing to be brought back to Japan.

Pocket Battleships were a term to describe larger warships that were listed as light enough to qualify for the requirements under Versailles treaty. Of course, they exceeded the requirements. Bismarck was created after Germany officially tore up the treaty.

May they rest in peace. But it is a little strange that the article describes this as “one of the worst naval disasters of the second world war”. Numerous other ships went down with far more casualties.

No, The back half of russia is much like Alaska, a frozen wasteland. It would take them forever to get troops north of manchuria, and supplying them would be nearly impossible. There werent any natural resource up there so the japanese had no interest in “capturing” (if you can even call it that) north russia. It would be smarter to send troops into china or inda, where the resources were.

Rommel praised the fighting ability Australian troops in North Africa, he considered 9th Australian the best division in Africa.