When the lookout reported that the West * * suddenly sank sharply at the bow of the sea parking ship almost 15,600 kilometers away, the Americans rejoiced, and many officers and men on duty and the crew members were desperate to get close to the porthole of the warship and looked at the blue sea and the horizon, with tears in their eyes.
This is the most splendid moment of the American Navy. The young White Fleet has never had a chance to prove itself since the smoke of the Spanish-American War was exhausted. However, Britain completely ruined the Royal Navy. On June 21, 1917, the US Navy was ranked first in the world, with rich experience in warfare and the best naval commander on the planet, but it was able to sink a German capital ship before its own damage. How can the rookie of the Stars and Stripes be at ease? !
For a moment, the officers and men of the US Navy were wrapped in sudden happiness, unaware that the reason for the sinking of the West * * was debatable. They stubbornly believed that their’ J and ‘jīng Zhan’ gun skills and’ strong’ perseverance had enlisted the bohemian North Sea and the emperor who dominated everything since ancient times, so that the United States could easily sink a German battleship, thus making the US Navy stand proudly in this bright sea of stars from the outbreak.
The Americans believe that the battleship Westwood was sunk by Major General Rodman’s fleet. However, according to the latest declassified report of the Congressional Commission of Inquiry on the Naval Battle in the Orkney Islands, Rizhi never appeared in the watchtower report, saying that’ the German ship was hit’. This record is even pitiful, which means that the Americans probably didn’t touch the Germans in the first few minutes of the battle. In other words, the German battleship Westwood probably sank by itself.
What is intriguing is that the German Navy neither denies nor recognizes the achievements of the Americans.
After the war, the American high-profile sinking of the USS Xuanwei * * and the German sailors recalled the sinking of the USS Wester * *, and the phrase "American shelling was spectacular" happened in unison. However, if we talk enough to supplement the German sailors’ memories or visit the German naval history museum, which is closed to the public, we can find many interesting places.
At 15: 51, the Americans fired the first shot. The first shell was a little wide of the mark. My colleague Schiller wondered if there was another allied fleet hidden there.
Twenty seconds later, the first round of shelling came, and the small beer barrel-sized shells flew high over the main mast of the detachment and spread the remote and vast ocean. Then, the Americans shelled the spectacular 356 mm armor-piercing shells like a downpour, and the heavy rain swept over your unexpected place.
I didn’t know that the Americans didn’t follow the rules of engagement in the era of fear pointed out by West Lyme as early as a century ago, and they didn’t get across the speed of shelling them. Even the most mainstream turret semi-cannon didn’t hit her, aiming the main gun in a general direction. The temperature of this sunny afternoon watchtower was so high that I was scared. The West watchtower with a certain armor thickness shouted hoarsely and forcefully, thinking that when the Americans would stop, they couldn’t get shelling except making water columns, evaporating seawater and frying cod.
But the fact is that the American shelling has never stopped, and the frequency is so fast that people can imagine that I laughed at the Americans for doing work. That’s when the disaster happened. The hull of the West suddenly stopped and the hull leaned forward violently …’
This is the memory of the battleship Westward’s lookout about the battle between Germany and the United States in the Orkney Islands naval battle, and there is also a delicately worded battle report in the German naval history museum.
A captain of the damaged pipe of the West * * recalled that at about 3: 05 p.m., when the warship turned, a large sealing plate on the side near the bow of the ship showed signs of loosening. The captain of the damaged pipe sent a team to wade to reinforce the sealing plate and then rushed to a place where it needed to be damaged. One minute later, the warship’s side was damaged and the old ship sank completely four minutes later.’
It was found that according to the declassified data of the German navy, the battleship West actually sank by itself.
We don’t know whether the Americans lied about this matter or whether the Germans have been able to be humiliated. The reason for the sinking of the West has become an unsolved case, and historians are still debating it today.
We won’t go into details about the historical unsolved cases. On June 21, 1917, after the sinking of the battleship Westward, the first confrontation between Germany and the United States off the Orkney Islands continued, and this time it was played by Americans to be continued.
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When we evaluate the century confrontation between the German and American navies at the end of the Orkney Islands naval battle, we always highly praise the excellent protection and health of the German capital ship, and at the same time, we will not forget to spit out American scum to add artillery skills
In the first few minutes of the battle, the Americans dominated, but their main gun hit rate was not flattering.
The German disabled unit lost the ability to fight back because of low-speed steering. Although the American battleship unit can’t use the main gun on the middle side, it can at least attack the opponent without delay. However, according to many declassified documents and the memories of the officers and men participating in the war, we have reason to believe that the Americans hit the target rate five minutes before the battle.
After the sinking of the battleship West, the hit rate of the American main guns was high. This seems to be nonsense. From 15: 51 when the American battleship unit played the first gun of the German-American naval battle to 16: 12, the first reconnaissance group reinforced it. In just 21 minutes, the Stars and Stripes fleet threw more than 1,200 large-caliber shells at the Germans, only hitting the German disabled team six times, with a poor hit rate of 51%. The so-called’ high quality’ is just a process from beginning to end.
Compared with Americans’ 51% main gun hit rate, the German navy can maintain 56% hit rate in actual combat. Although the British navy has been badly suppressed by the Germans, its main gun hit rate can still maintain 3%. Even the Mediterranean powers can maintain more than 2% actual main gun hit rate, claiming to rank third in the world in terms of strength. The American navy’s main gun hit rate is less than the head of the Far East Ri.
However, history is sometimes so funny, just like the American who hit less than 5% of the main guns in the sea battle in the Orkney Islands managed to do things with more than 30 capital ships of the Royal Navy.
In less than twenty minutes, the Americans lost the battleship New York and "sank" two German battleships with sā class.
It is said that after the naval battle in the Orkney Islands, many officers and men of the Royal Navy could not help but burst into tears. It is difficult to verify whether the British really cried. However, through The Times, the US Admiralty made a high-profile announcement about the sinking of two Americans with sā emperor! We can vaguely perceive the grievances and resentment of the British.
But the British have reason to think that they have been fooled by the emperor, and their experience and will to fight are far more than those of the Americans. Before the Royal Navy achieved the same result, it had already paid the price of sinking four capital ships, while the Americans paid only one new york class!
After the naval battle in the Orkney Islands, the Americans deliberately played down the tragic ending of the American Battleship Unit, focusing on the "J Ο ng color performance" of the American Navy’s German First Reconnaissance Group before it arrived at the battlefield, and shamelessly "attacked" the sinking of the battleship New York, believing that this new battleship should not have sunk in this round of crossfire, "the emperor has no American side."
British people scoff at the sophistry of American newspapers. Although the New York-class battleship is the first super-feared ship in the United States, it has not been in service for more than three years, but there seems to be no reason why it cannot be sunk in front of the 3 mm main gun of the Bavarian-class battleship in Germany.
The New York-class battleship has a 112-inch waterline, and the armor belt of the main armor department is quite thick, but it still can’t carry the 3 mm main gun. At 15: 59, the thick hull covers him. The two main battleships retreat from the battleship Bavaria, and the observation sergeant accidentally confuses their target ship. The rangefinder is aimed at the battleship New York by mistake. As a result, shè and the shelling angle are adjusted. After that, the battleship Bavaria meets the battleship New York with lightning and fire, and then three points later. The clock has carried out seven rounds of crossing to the Americans, and she has polished the bow of the ship. The cost of preparing bombs for the 3 mm main gun department hit the battleship New York as many as nine times. This kind of high-intensity shelling of the battleship New York is absolutely unreasonable.
For the British cynicism, because of the neglect of the battlefield information sharing of the American Battleship detachment, the first batch of U.S. Army aid to Europe has been divided, and the Americans have been alienated from the Allies’ allies. Americans also feel that the argument is not enough to contribute to the war. The pressure on the U.S. Congress is good, and American newspapers soon find new news materials.
Our New York unfortunately exploded and sank at 16: 01, still immersed in the atmosphere of sinking the battleship West * *, and the American boys instantly fell from the cloud of happiness to the bottom of despair. However, in less than a minute, the boys adjusted themselves. They aimed their fire at sinking the former with the sā and the Regent Louis Polder and almost destroyed the latter.’
Excluding some dog blood, imaginary bridge design and emotional subjective lyrical words, the facts are not far apart. At 16: 09, the damn battleship Texas finally stopped wasting American taxpayers’ money, accurately hitting the weak and taking the battleship sā.
The 14-inch heavy bomb severely tore up the original holes. Taking the 3 mm side waterline of battleship sā with the main armor made this tired old ship completely lose control of losses and capsized and sank in less than two minutes.
No matter how close they are to each other after the naval battle in the Orkney Islands between Britain and Germany, the first German investigation group always gained the results that the Royal Navy could crush the silver fangs despite the appalling shelling efficiency of the Americans before joining the battlefield.
At 16: 12, the sudden change of the situation in the sea didn’t go too far. After receiving the report from the disabled detachment for help, the German first reconnaissance group adjusted its course at the first time, and the south battle cruiser rushed out of 27 knots and cut into the battlefield.
In the face of the fierce attack, the first reconnaissance group used to bully the weak and be afraid of the hard. The Americans were frightened just by the number of smoke columns rising vertically in the northeast. The American battleship detachment did not hesitate to give up the battleship Regent Louis Polder, which was about to be sunk, and rushed to the second quarter to take the road to the west before the muzzle smoke cleared.
Despite the loss of two battleships with sā class, the Battleship Bavaria and the Battleship Regent Louie Polder survived after all. The former sank a new American capital ship under difficult conditions, while the latter was passively beaten and totally embarassed, but as the saying goes, there will be gains and losses, and this capital ship was seriously injured in a long and short war, and it lived quite well.
After the naval battle in the Orkney Islands, the battleship Regent Louis Polder, frederick the great, was dragged back to Port William and spent more than nine months repairing the dock in Port William due to lack of repairs. One day in the first half of rì191, the Regent Louis Polder dawned, and a huge military power was born in the depths of the European continent. The young Polish navy from the Gulf of Finland to the coast of New Prussia squeezed out an army to order the capital ship from Germany, while Heidi Selim, the newly promoted German navy minister, collected a lot of money under the banner of consolidating the friendship between the two peoples.
Renamed the Polish battleship Louie Regent Polder, she narrowly escaped the world-wide ship-breaking madness after the war, and even participated in the Second World War, when the Gulf of Finland hunted her younger brother, the USS Soviet (Helgolan).
On the other side, a chase began, and the first investigation group pursued the Americans relentlessly. Even if the fleet of Stars and Stripes tried its best, it would not win the battle patrol even if it unified the battleship.
At 16: 41, the American Battleship detachment not only failed to get rid of the first reconnaissance group behind it, but was blocked by thirteen battleships on the west side of the battlefield with Lord Purple’s landline guiding the German main fleet.
There are tigers in front and wolves in the back. Rodman clenched his fist and tried to break the jar, but the words came to his mouth and became another word plus sadness.
It’s over …’ "To be continued.
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"("The King of the North Atlantic "Section American Tragedy)
At 16: 41, the American battleship detachment ran head-on into the main force of the ocean fleet.
The situation of the Americans at this moment can no longer be difficult, cruel and bleak. The Americans have three capital ships, the commanders of which are drawn out from short places, and the officers and men of major general have some training in fixed ship target gunnery and little experience in ocean navigation, while their opponents are the ocean fleet at its peak.
A few hours ago, this high-seas fleet, the Royal Navy, fought at the foot of its respective main ships, and then defeated its opponents for the second time. After the one-sided harvesting campaign ended, the Germans were dragged around by the British in the northern part of the vast Firth Bay, and the weakest part of the three mutual support parts happened to meet the South American battleship detachment.
The situation in Firth Bay may not be beneficial to the Americans, but it has given birth to many opportunities. Just as the Americans can make some people take advantage of the danger to practice the combination of large fleets and small formations, the Germans have shown the rookie who has just set foot in the sea of fear and anger what is called the Silme-style battlefield insight and the ocean fleet-style tactical execution, and told him how "white" he falsely claimed that he was the third largest white fleet in the world before the new North Atlantic king!
The German-American naval battle started in the 21 ST minute. battle cruiser, the first German reconnaissance group, rushed into the battlefield at a high speed from the northeast. The timing and angle of cutting into the battlefield were just right, forcing the Americans to give up their prey and rush towards the preset speed of the Germans with their tails between their legs.
In the 50 th minute of the German-American naval battle, the German main fleet appeared. There were 13 main battleships in front of the American battleship detachment. The front team of the ocean fleet was led by the purple baron, and the team was also turning on the way, forming a spectacular steel Great Wall for the Americans.
The Germans attacked the three new battleships of the American Battleship detachment from two sides, from harvesting the Wang Yang of the German disabled detachment to turning into a thief. Zei8ne people shouted and beat the dog for only fifty minutes. The situation changed quickly and told the American commander, Major General Rodman, to be dazzled and not to encounter the German main fleet. The strategic vision and personality charm are not enough. The commander is still looking forward to being located in the west side of the battlefield. When he found himself in the vast sea, he didn’t expect the Germans to bring their meticulous attitude and rigid style to the naval battle. The tactical execution was just the pinnacle, tearing the last hope of the Americans to pieces!
Major General Rodman was stunned. His breathing was heavy, his eyes were bloodshot, and his heartbeat was unstable. It seemed that there was an angel and a devil. His mind clashed and the major general had to face a false multiple-choice question.