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02-03-13, 01:41 PM
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Why no 'I'?
I have just recently noticed that on the Kriegsmarine grid square map there is no second letter I. There is AH then AJ. DH then DJ.
Any one know why? 
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02-03-13, 01:44 PM
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 Whoa...
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02-03-13, 01:56 PM
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02-03-13, 02:00 PM
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many armies exclude the I when it can be confused with an 1.
same for O and 0...
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02-03-13, 02:19 PM
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02-03-13, 04:20 PM
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i said many. i have no proof that the kriegsmarine did it because of that specific reason...
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02-03-13, 05:46 PM
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The KM grid map has no 'I', not because it can be confused with '1', but because it can be confused with 'J'. Same with the US Air Force when giving sub-variant letters to aircraft.
Oddly, though the Royal Navy had both 'J' and 'I' class destroyers in WW2, in WW1 there was no 'J' class, for the same reason.
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