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[stevep]

Lordroel

Small typo in the WWI entry for today. SMS MAGDEBURG was grounded in the Baltic rather than the Black sea.

Steve

[lordroel]

Nov 8, 2019 12:33:37 GMT stevep said:

Lordroel

Small typo in the WWI entry for today. SMS MAGDEBURG was grounded in the Baltic rather than the Black sea.

Steve

Thanks, will fix it.

[stevep]

   Lordroel

   In the WWII entry for today at the end of the section on the attack on Coventry you have a paragraph.

The RAF, for its part, does make use of the non-Ultra intelligence about Operation Moonlight Sonata. It has been mounting.

  To me it sounds like that 2nd sentence has been truncated?

  Checking the dates tomorrow will be the last day of the this day in history thread.  Been very interesting thanks.

  Only realised yesterday, because of the number of pinned threads that I was missing some active ones further down so will try and make sure I look further down the page.

    Steve

[lordroel]

Nov 14, 2019 9:59:32 GMT stevep said:

   Lordroel

   In the WWII entry for today at the end of the section on the attack on Coventry you have a paragraph.

The RAF, for its part, does make use of the non-Ultra intelligence about Operation Moonlight Sonata. It has been mounting.

  To me it sounds like that 2nd sentence has been truncated?

  Checking the dates tomorrow will be the last day of the this day in history thread.  Been very interesting thanks.

  Only realised yesterday, because of the number of pinned threads that I was missing some active ones further down so will try and make sure I look further down the page.

    Steve

Yep tomorrow in November 15th will be the end of this 1 year project, working on a new project that might be about naval history.

[stevep]

   lordroel ,

  On today's WWII entry

a)  On the sinking of the Medoc you have a typo where you refer to it as a plane "A lone Luftwaffe plane strafes the plane, then on its second pass torpedoes and sinks it."

b)  "This includes two modern battleships, the Vittorio Veneto and the Giulio Cesare".  Vittorio Veneto is one of their new ships but Giulio Cesare, although extensively modernised was initially completed in 1914, see Giulio_Cesare. 

c)  I was a bit confused by the mention of the last set of DDs transferred under the base deal as you mentioned that before back on the 21st.  However checking back that was when they arrived at Halifax and this is actually when their formally transferred.

  I see British secret agent Fatman [aka Goring ] is helping in hindering the German war effort in the Atlantic.  

  Landings behind Italian lines might have helped considerably in the wider campaign but logistics were strained and with the growing priority given to Greece made the chance to clear out Libya definitely beyond the resources of Britain at this time.

  Steve

[lordroel]

Nov 26, 2019 12:09:39 GMT stevep said:

   lordroel ,

  On today's WWII entry

a)  On the sinking of the Medoc you have a typo where you refer to it as a plane "A lone Luftwaffe plane strafes the plane, then on its second pass torpedoes and sinks it."

b)  "This includes two modern battleships, the Vittorio Veneto and the Giulio Cesare".  Vittorio Veneto is one of their new ships but Giulio Cesare, although extensively modernised was initially completed in 1914, see Giulio_Cesare. 

c)  I was a bit confused by the mention of the last set of DDs transferred under the base deal as you mentioned that before back on the 21st.  However checking back that was when they arrived at Halifax and this is actually when their formally transferred.

  I see British secret agent Fatman [aka Goring ] is helping in hindering the German war effort in the Atlantic.  

  Landings behind Italian lines might have helped considerably in the wider campaign but logistics were strained and with the growing priority given to Greece made the chance to clear out Libya definitely beyond the resources of Britain at this time.

  Steve

Thanks will change the typo stevep .

[stevep]

  lordroel ,

  Today in the WWI thread you have two entries for operations in the Atlantic, both about Sturdee's ships heading towards the Falklands and with some overlap.  Possibly best to consolidate them?

  Steve

[lordroel]

Nov 28, 2019 11:49:32 GMT stevep said:

  lordroel ,

  Today in the WWI thread you have two entries for operations in the Atlantic, both about Sturdee's ships heading towards the Falklands and with some overlap.  Possibly best to consolidate them?

  Steve

Will do, thanks.

[stevep]

lordroel ,

  Small typo I think in the WWI thread entry.  You have:

This evening AYESHA begins to be followed by the Dutch warship DE ZEVEN PROVINCIEN - evidently the Dutch now want to ensure that AYESHA leaves the West Indies and does not return

  Shouldn't that be the East Indies?

  In the WWII entry:

In Convoy HX 88, 4872 ton British freighter Parthenia collides with another ship (the Robert F. Hand) in rough seas and sin about 13 km southwest of Sandra Lightship.

  suspect this should be sinks?

  Steve

[lordroel]

Nov 29, 2019 10:34:21 GMT stevep said:

lordroel ,

  Small typo I think in the WWI thread entry.  You have:

This evening AYESHA begins to be followed by the Dutch warship DE ZEVEN PROVINCIEN - evidently the Dutch now want to ensure that AYESHA leaves the West Indies and does not return

  Shouldn't that be the East Indies?

  In the WWII entry:

In Convoy HX 88, 4872 ton British freighter Parthenia collides with another ship (the Robert F. Hand) in rough seas and sin about 13 km southwest of Sandra Lightship.

  suspect this should be sinks?

  Steve

Thanks i will change it.

[stevep]

  lordroel ,

  In the WWI thread you have a map for the Mesopotamian offensive that ended so disastrously at Kut.  However as the map says this was the 1915 offensive, not anything in 1914 so I think it would only confuse matters.  I can't even see Qurna, the location mentioned in the preceding text on the map so suspect its further down the Tigris river?

  Actually did a quick wiki and see Battle_of_Qurna, which is about the coming battle there and includes a map which might be better, see map.  

  Steve

[lordroel]

Nov 30, 2019 14:18:36 GMT stevep said:

  lordroel ,

  In the WWI thread you have a map for the Mesopotamian offensive that ended so disastrously at Kut.  However as the map says this was the 1915 offensive, not anything in 1914 so I think it would only confuse matters.  I can't even see Qurna, the location mentioned in the preceding text on the map so suspect its further down the Tigris river?

  Actually did a quick wiki and see Battle_of_Qurna, which is about the coming battle there and includes a map which might be better, see map.  

  Steve

Thanks will change it, did not know I used te wrong map.

[stevep]

Nov 30, 2019 14:21:50 GMT lordroel said:

Nov 30, 2019 14:18:36 GMT stevep said:

  lordroel ,

  In the WWI thread you have a map for the Mesopotamian offensive that ended so disastrously at Kut.  However as the map says this was the 1915 offensive, not anything in 1914 so I think it would only confuse matters.  I can't even see Qurna, the location mentioned in the preceding text on the map so suspect its further down the Tigris river?

  Actually did a quick wiki and see Battle_of_Qurna, which is about the coming battle there and includes a map which might be better, see map.  

  Steve

Thanks will change it, did not know I used te wrong map.

  No problem.  Sometimes being an history addict comes in useful.

[lordroel]

Nov 30, 2019 14:35:46 GMT stevep said:

Nov 30, 2019 14:21:50 GMT lordroel said:

Thanks will change it, did not know I used te wrong map.

  No problem.  Sometimes being an history addict comes in useful.

Well i try to work several days ahead on the Great War and World War II, but sometimes as you have notice yourself, errors appear.

[stevep]

lordroel ,

  One typo noticed in the WWII thread today.

During its attacks on Southampton, the Luftwaffe bombs and sinks 235 British paddle steamer Her Majesty. The 250 ton Dutch freighter Friso and 1936 ton Yugoslavian freighter Cetvrti also are damaged in the bombing. The ship are un-manned at the time.

  A 'ton' missing here.

  Also on a technical point while Southampton and Coventry would qualify as moderately sized cities Birmingham is the 2nd largest in England - see Birmingham for more details.

  Steve