soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:17:03 -0400, kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:

>In article <47df7319$0$25392$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
>nospamthere_yauchiam@gmail.com (YMC) wrote:
>
>> The Kormoran shouldn't have stood a chance against
>> the Sydney.
>
> Try actually reading accounts of the battle.

Given by the German survivors. And *only* the German survivors.

Survivors who, mostly, wouldn't have had a clew what actually
happened, and the few who *did* ... Detmers and the Bridge officers
... who could have been guilty of opening fire under a false flag,
making them pirates/war criminals and therefore giving them a real
reason to lie through their teeth.

>Sydney got far to close at

So Detmers et alii, those with a real potential reason for lying, say.

Did it *actually* happen this way or not?

We may know when the actual wreck is videoed, or not.

>Kormoran opened fire at about 1,400 yards and actually inside the
>effective range of 20mm guns.

According to Detmers account. And he may well have lied and had a real
reason to continue to do so.

We simply *do not know*

Phil

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