Real time Discusion thread

[stevep]

   Lordroel

   One small typo in the WWII thread. The section

Royal Navy 387 ton armed yacht HMY Sappho, serving as a guard ship, hits a mine and sinks off Falmouth, Cornwall. As often happens when smaller vessels hit mines, the ship blows up and kills the kill. 33 men perish. This seems to be a victim of the mines recently laid by a German destroyer flotilla at the mouth of the English Channel.

  Assuming that 2nd kill should be crew?

  Steve

[lordroel]

Sept 29, 2019 11:18:26 GMT stevep said:

   Lordroel

   One small typo in the WWII thread. The section

Royal Navy 387 ton armed yacht HMY Sappho, serving as a guard ship, hits a mine and sinks off Falmouth, Cornwall. As often happens when smaller vessels hit mines, the ship blows up and kills the kill. 33 men perish. This seems to be a victim of the mines recently laid by a German destroyer flotilla at the mouth of the English Channel.

  Assuming that 2nd kill should be crew?

  Steve

Noted, will fix it.

[stevep]

  Lordroel

   A couple of suspected typos in the WWI post for today.

a)  In the section on the Germans moving forces north during the race to the sea you correctly mention three corps arriving east of Arras.  However in the title for the section it refers to 3 German corpses - suspect you missed an spell-checker foul up possibly?

b)  two sections down, on the fall of Fort Wavre you have

General Bessler believes that the fall of Antwerp needs to be hastened - he does not want the British or French to either reinforce the city or, of greater concern, push forces from the west against his eastern flank

  However I can't see how allies moving from the west could attack his eastern flank so presume it should be western?  Or possibly, which would in those circumstances amount to the same thing, his left flank?

  Steve

[lordroel]

Oct 1, 2019 10:07:35 GMT stevep said:

  Lordroel

   A couple of suspected typos in the WWI post for today.

a)  In the section on the Germans moving forces north during the race to the sea you correctly mention three corps arriving east of Arras.  However in the title for the section it refers to 3 German corpses - suspect you missed an spell-checker foul up possibly?

b)  two sections down, on the fall of Fort Wavre you have

General Bessler believes that the fall of Antwerp needs to be hastened - he does not want the British or French to either reinforce the city or, of greater concern, push forces from the west against his eastern flank

  However I can't see how allies moving from the west could attack his eastern flank so presume it should be western?  Or possibly, which would in those circumstances amount to the same thing, his left flank?

  Steve

My apologizes, try always in the Great War thread to create tittles for the sections, seems i made a mistake.

[stevep]

Oct 1, 2019 13:51:03 GMT lordroel said:

Oct 1, 2019 10:07:35 GMT stevep said:

  Lordroel

   A couple of suspected typos in the WWI post for today.

a)  In the section on the Germans moving forces north during the race to the sea you correctly mention three corps arriving east of Arras.  However in the title for the section it refers to 3 German corpses - suspect you missed an spell-checker foul up possibly?

b)  two sections down, on the fall of Fort Wavre you have

  However I can't see how allies moving from the west could attack his eastern flank so presume it should be western?  Or possibly, which would in those circumstances amount to the same thing, his left flank?

  Steve

My apologizes, try always in the Great War thread to create tittles for the sections, seems i made a mistake.

  No problem.  Your taking on a pretty big task with those threads and especially having to do each one day by day.  Accidents are bound to happen so please don't apologise. 

  Of course if those three corps had been replaced by three corpses it might just have shortened the war a bit, especially if the allies did manage to turn the line and keep more of Belgium in friendly hands.  Not to mention the German HQ would be wondering where their forces have disappeared to.

[lordroel]

Oct 1, 2019 15:54:23 GMT stevep said:

Oct 1, 2019 13:51:03 GMT lordroel said:

My apologizes, try always in the Great War thread to create tittles for the sections, seems i made a mistake.

  No problem.  Your taking on a pretty big task with those threads and especially having to do each one day by day.  Accidents are bound to happen so please don't apologise. 

The Great War updates i try to make at least a week ahead of schedule, pictures and maps of them are harder to find then the World war II updates, especially the Battle of Britain pics you can find on many, many sites.

[lordroel]

So i have completed the Yom Kippur War, it is not as good as i wanted as i had to borrow most of the days from Wikipdia but it is done and will be online on October 6th, the first day of the war.

[stevep]

  Lordroel

   One query in the last part of the WWI post. You refer to British forces attacking the German positions in Cameron. However it also reports "Senegalese soldiers seize the bridge at Japoma". Since Senegal was a French colony I would suspect those forces were under French command. Not a significant point [unless your French/Senegalese possibly ] but just a question of a possible inaccuracy?

  Steve

[lordroel]

Oct 6, 2019 13:41:32 GMT stevep said:

  Lordroel

   One query in the last part of the WWI post. You refer to British forces attacking the German positions in Cameron. However it also reports "Senegalese soldiers seize the bridge at Japoma". Since Senegal was a French colony I would suspect those forces were under French command. Not a significant point [unless your French/Senegalese possibly ] but just a question of a possible inaccuracy?

  Steve

Should separate but in the same campaign.

[stevep]

   Lordroel

   Think there's a small typo in the WWII entry for today.  At the end of the Med section you have

At Malta, there is an air raid around Delimara at 19:35, but most of the bombers drop their ordnance at sea or at random. Two bombers are brought down.
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  Suspect the last couple of words are there by accident?  Or possibly part of a broken link to an image?

  Steve

[lordroel]

Oct 8, 2019 14:05:19 GMT stevep said:

   Lordroel

   Think there's a small typo in the WWII entry for today.  At the end of the Med section you have

At Malta, there is an air raid around Delimara at 19:35, but most of the bombers drop their ordnance at sea or at random. Two bombers are brought down.
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  Suspect the last couple of words are there by accident?  Or possibly part of a broken link to an image?

  Steve

Seems your right, the scourge i use has between lines sometimes advertisement, seems the troll in charge to remove them has missed a spot.

[stevep]

   Lordroel

   On the WWI thread there is a typo on the section about the new 4th army. I.e. it says:

but the main fighting strength of the new 4th Army are XXII, XXII, XXVI, and XXVII Reserve Corps

   That is two 22nd corps. I presume one is either a 21st or 23rd say?

   Steve

[lordroel]

Oct 9, 2019 16:13:49 GMT stevep said:

   Lordroel

   On the WWI thread there is a typo on the section about the new 4th army. I.e. it says:

but the main fighting strength of the new 4th Army are XXII, XXII, XXVI, and XXVII Reserve Corps

   That is two 22nd corps. I presume one is either a 21st or 23rd say?

   Steve

My scource has the same typo, checking the XXIII Reserve Corps (German Empire) in Wikipedia, i think you might be right and it should be the XXIII Reserve Corps and not twice the XXII Reserve Corps.

[stevep]

   Lordroel

   In the WWII entry for the BoB night attacks by the Luftwaffe there is a section

  Night activity commenced at about 1850 hours, raids crossing the coast towards two main objectives. The first was the Liverpool/Manchester area, the enemy crossing near Swanage from the Cherbourg area. About 6 aircraft were involved in this attack and they returned on reciprocal tracks. About 90 aircraft crossed the coast from Baie De La Seine, Dieppe and Holland, between Selsey and Cromer toward the main objective of London.

  I'm wondering if that 6 should be 60?  Otherwise its quite small for a 'main objective' and the about would seem redundant.

  Thanks

  Steve

[lordroel]

Oct 9, 2019 17:53:09 GMT stevep said:

   Lordroel

   In the WWII entry for the BoB night attacks by the Luftwaffe there is a section

  Night activity commenced at about 1850 hours, raids crossing the coast towards two main objectives. The first was the Liverpool/Manchester area, the enemy crossing near Swanage from the Cherbourg area. About 6 aircraft were involved in this attack and they returned on reciprocal tracks. About 90 aircraft crossed the coast from Baie De La Seine, Dieppe and Holland, between Selsey and Cromer toward the main objective of London.

  I'm wondering if that 6 should be 60?  Otherwise its quite small for a 'main objective' and the about would seem redundant.

  Thanks

  Steve

Seems you are right as always stevep , one of my trolls who works on the Battle of Britain section has provided me with the a second source i always use which is this:

Battle of Britain, Wednesday October 9th 1940

It is a very good page to check if you have time.