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plan_D said:It's nice that you are both saying that the Bismarck couldn't stand up to the post-1943 US BBs (which is true) but the Bismarck sailed in 1941. To stop the Bismarck in 1941, the US would have had to do the same as the Royal Navy did.
You certainly are making the Royal Navy out to be useless. I'm sorry you fail to see that it had been spread from the across almost every ocean in the world.
And where was the USN in the Indian ocean, Dec 1941? Licking their wounds. See, we can all point fingers to say someone wasn't helping the other, so stop it.
How could the Ark Royal help during Midway? Battle of Midway - June 1942. H.M.S Ark Royal SUNK - 13th November 1941 while escorting Malta Conoys.
It'd have a job helping when it was at the bottom of the Med!
Lightning Guy said:North Carolina lacked the armor of the SoDak. Therefore, they weren't the equal in ship-to-ship combat. As an example, North Carolina had absolutely no immunity against their own 16in fire.
plan_D said:The Royal Navys focus was on the Med and Atlantic, rather than the Pacific.
And yes, look up the carrier. Most of the RN carriers were sunk or badly damaged by June 1942, I want to know which one it was. And what could a carrier with Swordfish and, if lucky, Sea Hurricanes do in Midway? Provide a target?
plan_D said:The IJN didn't run the Royal Navy out of the Indian ocean. Nagumo got bored and went to bother the USN some more. The British aren't going to waste lives of their own people for American lives. America wouldn't do the same.
RG_Lunatic said:Where did I say the RN was run out of the Indian ocean?
RG_Lunatic said:plan_D said:The IJN didn't run the Royal Navy out of the Indian ocean. Nagumo got bored and went to bother the USN some more. The British aren't going to waste lives of their own people for American lives. America wouldn't do the same.
Where did I say the RN was run out of the Indian ocean?
Tell that to the US merchant marines. Or the families of Americans who died on the beaches of Normandy. Or those who died in France in WWI.