Sprout posted:You're not watching/listening are you?
The Bismarck
I am...it was sunk by a couple of ours, only after it suffered massive damage by our bombers flying from an aircraft carrier...the name escapes me 
Dame_Ann_Average posted:Sprout posted:You're not watching/listening are you?
I am...it was sunk by a couple of ours, only after it suffered massive damage by our bombers flying from an aircraft carrier...the name escapes me
and it was scuttled and I can't remember why the Captain did that ...flipping annoying when I can only remember bits
Ark Royal...that was it
Dame_Ann_Average posted:and it was scuttled and I can't remember why the Captain did that ...flipping annoying when I can only remember bits
Cos he didn't want to surrender it to us
Sprout posted:Cos he didn't want to surrender it to us
it was buggered anyway
Dame_Ann_Average posted:Sprout posted:Cos he didn't want to surrender it to us
it was buggered anyway
Yeah but he wasn't gonna give it away freely was he
Dame_Ann_Average posted:Rocking Ros Rose posted:yes felt frosty tonight but was ok yesterday-somesun
none here Ros, it was horrible
Sprout posted:Yeah but he wasn't gonna give it away freely was he
they would have sank it anyway...they didn't have anyway of getting it to a port
I've just been looking on Google. I didn't know the Turpitz was the sister ship
Sprout posted:I've just been looking on Google. I didn't know the Turpitz was the sister ship
me either
it was like pot shot ally 
Sinking of the Battleship Tirpitz. Commissioned in 1941, the German Navy's mighty 42,900 ton Tirpitzposed a grave threat to Allied shipping. Sister ship to the more famous Bismarck, the battleship carried a main armament of eight 15 inch guns.
Dame_Ann_Average posted:it was like pot shot ally
Shooting pigs in a barrel
Sprout posted:Sinking of the Battleship Tirpitz. Commissioned in 1941, the German Navy's mighty 42,900 ton Tirpitzposed a grave threat to Allied shipping. Sister ship to the more famous Bismarck, the battleship carried a main armament of eight 15 inch guns.
Cos the tanks are being transported
It's eery to think of what went on then and to look at how quiet it is now
I would have had arm floats on and paddling like feck back to Dover 
Dame_Ann_Average posted:
I would have had arm floats on and paddling like feck back to Dover
Waders!
Sprout posted:It's eery to think of what went on then and to look at how quiet it is now
all depends what part of the world you're in.... Yemen, Syria, Palestine 
Moonie posted:Wherever you get religion you get conflict
and oil
Dame_Ann_Average posted:Sprout posted:It's eery to think of what went on then and to look at how quiet it is now
all depends what part of the world you're in.... Yemen, Syria, Palestine
No, I meant in this case/time. France
Sprout posted:No, I meant in this case/time. France
Moonie posted:Dame_Ann_Average posted:Sprout posted:It's eery to think of what went on then and to look at how quiet it is now
all depends what part of the world your in Yemen, Syria, Palestine
Wherever you get religion you get conflict
Dame_Ann_Average posted:Moonie posted:Wherever you get religion you get conflict
and oil
Moonie posted:Yep, that too
Hovertanks
hovercraft tanks
bet they dropped them in rough seas
Dame_Ann_Average posted:
bet they dropped them in rough seas
They've just as much said so
did no one notice them sinking in a line ...it's not like you can miss a tank
Moonie posted:Sprout posted:Hovertanks
Same to you too
Dame_Ann_Average posted:
did no one notice them sinking in a line ...it's not like you can miss a tank
Prolly did but couldn't do much about it
Moonie posted:Sprout posted:Hovertanks
Same to you too
Dyson is gonna come up with a hoovertank
Sprout posted:Prolly did but couldn't do much about it
but why keep launching 