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I just read your blog and noticed your into WW1 and WW2 history..

I enjoy history and do a bit of reading and talking to friends about the wars, and the one vessel from WW2 that i have always had an interest in is the "Tirpitz", sunk in Norway on the 12th of November 1944. 21 years to the day, before I was born...

I would loved to have seen this mighty ship in all its glory, but alas the british did drop a few little bombs(yep, tongue in cheek) and sink the mighty warrior...

What also has amazed me is the amount of bombs dropped on Darwin, yet people think it was just a few and the Japanese left...from what I can gather, there where more dropped there than at Pearl Harbour...


The amount of military history that is either forgotten or rewritten, is absolutely incredible...The way the winners of battles have twisted things or just look at one side without the feeling of the other, is something I have noticed as i have got older and more accepting...

I am ex-army, and my immediate superior was a war history buff...I got to learn a lot about the past and notice now how humans do the same over and over again...

I hope you enjoy the history you research and can pass it on to others...There are a lot of ex-ADF personal doing the same but if there where more people looking back and learning, then we may just gain enough for the future...

Catch up again soon...Take care and relax...

Cheers, K...