To keep it fair between their drivers, McLaren is officially backing Verstappen for the WDC

Let me tell you, as a Norwegian, I don't understand what they're saying either...

So was this post

Well, that's South Dakota and she was for sure back in the Pacific at that point. And her sailing with Furious makes this early 1943 and North Atlantic

That's HMS Rodney, with her very distinctive dark and wavy camouflage scheme. Nelson's was somewhat lighter and more in patches than wavy lines

Like the indomitable Thomas Main who had his arm shot off and, after insisting on waiting for his turn at the surgeon's, had his shattered arm amputated "near the shoulder, during which, with great composure, smiling, and with a steady clear voice, he sang the whole of Rule Britannia"

Given CarDiv 2's exposed position, protected only by a collection of destroyers and their own abysmal AA, I think the planned Albacore night strike had a very real chance of devastating the two carriers. Would have required a lot of luck to find and hit them, but luck favours the bold

She also carried the excellent Mk37 fire control system. The RN were granted a total of 42 of these systems, adapted to British ballistics. Four of these were adapted to the 5.25" and assigned to HMS Vanguard, while the rest were adapted to 4.5" to equip destroyers and the new fleet carriers.

They tried. The Type XXI was their first attempt to build u-boats in sections in order to speed up construction, but by this stage of the war it was far too late to build up the experience and efficiency required for this kind of mass production, so it never really worked well for them

Reminds of the uniform scene from the recent "All Quiet on the Western Front" - a remarkably evocative scene in an otherwise unremarkable movie

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