Anyone else enjoy this 2hr big battleship TV extravanganza on Ch4 the other night ??
If u liked it, check out a book called 'Rules Of The Game' which goes into the whole battle in disgusting amounts of detail.
English Navy was crap shock!
Like the other sea warfare doc esp the fact that a Jap attache was taking notes when the Brits sunk the Italian fleet at harbour with canvas and string bi-planes with torpedos then using notes Yamamoto replicated it at Pearl Harbor
Dom-1 has sent me an mp3 which as far as I can tell, features Judge Dredd voiced by Toby Longworth from the Big Finish audios.
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Link: Download - music
Um..am I right in thinking this involved Admrail Jellicoe?
We invented blitzkrieg tactics as well - a british officer called John Fuller came up with all the theory, was comprehensively ignored by superiors who firmly beleived in the superiority of cavalry charges and so went off to become a right wing loon and mate of Aliester Crowley instead. The germans later read his theorys and put them to use.
Oi! Wilkinson, it was the BRITISH Navy, if there is a heroic defeat, a stupid pointless battle, an inept last stand we want our equal share of it ;)
That Chap who flew the Swordfish was like something from the Fastshow... 'enoooormous hole in the wing, thought I better check the other chappie' Lets hope we have a few like him next time...
PFC Huffy ( Pastey Faced Clerk)