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Right. She was finished off by two battleships, HMS King George V and HMS Rodney, and finally torpedoed by cruiser HMS Dorsetshire

What is a "Stringbag?"

It does kind of highlight the importance of Combat Support (CS) and Combat Service Support (CSS) too. The German King Tiger had always impressed me (not surprisingly.) I later read that the Germans...

I just finished a book on the New Guinea campaign...Yech, what a horrible place! In any event, as became usual in the SW Pacific, the Japanese supply system, which sucked even on a good day, broke...

Amazing they fitted Skorzeny and that fat tub of goo Mussolini in a freakin' Storch. I'm guessing a pretty high "pucker factor" was at work when getting that thing into the air.

Den - why dont you answer the Blucher question? HTB had his chance to pump up Norwegian Pride!

LMAO! German Intel was pretty horrible throughout the War.

I've often thought that if you wanted to create the worst armed forces of WW2 you would combine German Intelligence services (S-2),...

Tirpitz was sunk in a Norwegian Fjord, by the British in combined attacks from minisubs and Blockbuster bombs. Ten Nazi destroyers were sunk in Narvik Fjord after HMS Warspite and company blasted...

How was the German Heavy Cruiser Blucher sunk?

Hint: Harold the Barrel ought to know this one cold.

Juno

That was one of two attack modes, yes. Balloons with incendiary bombs, though I don't think they ever accomplished anything with these. It was a pretty goofy idea, really. They also launched an...

It was a leadership performance that rivals Art Shell's last tour with the Raiders

Yep - nice work. It was the command organized to defend the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), and HQ'ed in Java

OK - what was the ABDA?

Hint: it is not a third rate Swedish Disco/Pop band from the 70's.

Sorry I forgot to respond here - It was actually HMS Warspite, which nailed the Italian Battleship Giulio Cesare at over 26,000 yards at the Battle of Calabria.

HMS Duke of York did some really...

I've got a really hard one then. The longest range hit ever scored in History by a gun against a moving target was achieved by a Royal Navy Battleship. Name that ship

Hellcats looked Bad Ass, but I think that tinfoil armor would have worried me!

M-18 Hellcat

What was "Operation Compass", when was it, and who was involved?

The "Dambuster" - looked like an oversized garbage can full of explosives, they skipped across the water.

I owe you a virtual Pint!

CA's (Heavy Cruisers) Norfolk and Dorsetshire. HMS Dorsetshire finished her off with a spread of Torpedos.

Scuttled off Montevideo was Graf Spee, after action with HMS Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles....