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Thread starter CalBear Start date Sep 18, Status Not open for further replies. CalBear Moderator. Monthly Donor. Last edited: May 6, The trigger for the move from Warm War to Hot was the infamous St. The potential success of the Raid, even if it had exceeded the most optimistic expectations in the surviving Luftwaffe documents, seems today to hardly have been worth the effort involved, not to mention the inevitable Allied reaction to the action.
Alas, with the lack of records, and the dearth of eyewitnesses to the debates, we are left with only the raids themselves to tell the incomplete tale. The Premier was an Ameer class escort carrier assigned as the flag of a ASW Hunter-Killer Task Force operating in the Denmark Strait in search of U-boats attempting to gain access to the North American coast by moving through the less heavily patrolled seas north of Iceland.
The two plane Wildcat CAP was immediately sent to investigate, and the carrier launched two more fighters to take their place over the formation. Angeles The aircraft sported twenty defensive machine guns and 20mm cannon, six engines and, with a wingspan some twenty FEET greater than the B bomber and thirty-eight feet greater than the Avro Lancaster, and a range of over 9, miles, was the largest operational bomber in the world at the time.
