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Originally Posted by tomhugill
Well if you think early war you have all the actions of the German surface fleet commerce raiding , battle of the river plate , actions involving the bismark , sinking of the Scharn etc. PTOs ok , but regarding actual ship to ship , rather than air to ship or actions involving carriers there isnt so much
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LOL.
Commerce raiding? Yeah, a warship vs unarmed merchants, there's a major naval engagement.
The other actions are a handful of ships at best.
Your understanding of the Pacific naval war is deeply flawed. There were many surface actions between major warships. The Solomons alone exceed all the surface actions between the Germans and Allies combined. Yes, there were a number of small engagements between BB/BCs in the ATO and Med. There were fewer pure BB/BC engagements in the PTO. Once you bother to include CA actions and smaller (still DDs and larger) it skyrockets in the PTO.
Just Guadalcanal stuff (only warships listed, total numbers for both sides together):
Savo 15 Cruisers, 16 DDs.
Battle of Cape Esperance, 7 Cruisers, 13 DD, 2 AS.
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 1 CV, 4 BB, 13 CA/CL, 28 DD.
Battle of Tassafaronga, 5 CA/CL, 12 DD.
That's 4 months in the PTO.
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