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To: GreyFriar

True. But the Germans had better optics and had sacrificed some speed and some ballistic range for more armor around their magazines - and their ships didn’t blow up.


9 posted on 06/20/2016 7:21:34 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: SeeSharp

However, if they hadn’t kept the ‘anti-flash’ doors closed, the amount of armor would have mean little for turret hits and near hits that happened to the British ships that send the ‘fireball’ directly into the magazines.


13 posted on 06/20/2016 8:34:04 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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