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** Another OffscreenMomentOfAwesome we're told about in the same book is the Battle of the Orkneys. In 1945 the German Navy sailed out with all their remaining surface fleet of two ''carriers'' (yes, in this timeline Germany built the carriers), five battleships, three heavy cruisers and twelve destroyers, sending bombastic messages back home-and giving away their location early. What followed was the mother of all carrier strikes, launched by ''24 carriers'' (twenty ''Essex''-class, three Independence class VLs and two ''Gettysburgs'', this timeline's version of the ''Midway''-class). [[CurbStompBattle The German fleet ceased to be]] although it cost the carriers more than 400 aircraft to do it.
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** Another OffscreenMomentOfAwesome we're told about in the same book is the Battle of the Orkneys. In 1945 the German Navy sailed out with all their remaining surface fleet of two ''carriers'' (yes, in this timeline Germany built the carriers), five battleships, three heavy cruisers and twelve destroyers, sending bombastic messages back home-and giving away their location early. What followed was the mother of all carrier strikes, launched by ''24 carriers'' (twenty ''Essex''-class, three Independence class VLs [=VL=]s and two ''Gettysburgs'', this timeline's version of the ''Midway''-class). [[CurbStompBattle The German fleet ceased to be]] although it cost the carriers more than 400 aircraft to do it.
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* The German Fliegershrek is a primitive anti-aircraft man-portable rocket, based on the Panzershrek anti-tank rocket. Being one of the earliest two-stage rockets, it's incredibly inaccurate, and pretty much impossible to aim properly. [[ArmchairMilitary Captain Lang, the above-mentioned staff officer with little field experience]], ''[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass can]]''. It helps that [[WroteTheBook he wrote the user's manual]], and to do so [[{{Justified}} he had to fire a lot of them, gaining more experience with the thing than most frontline soldiers]].
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* The German Fliegershrek is a primitive anti-aircraft man-portable rocket, based on the Panzershrek anti-tank rocket. Being one of the earliest two-stage rockets, it's incredibly inaccurate, and pretty much impossible to aim properly. [[ArmchairMilitary Captain Lang, the above-mentioned staff officer with little field experience]], ''[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass can]]''. It helps that [[WroteTheBook he wrote the user's manual]], and to do so [[{{Justified}} [[{{Justified|Trope}} he had to fire a lot of them, gaining more experience with the thing than most frontline soldiers]].
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As for the German carrier strike... Sitka had 32 modern Bearcats, was being reinforced by a squadron of Corsairs, and was facing less than 70 Stukas (the survivors of the recon squadron, equipped with bombs just in case and coming in piecemeal, and 30-40 properly fitted ones coming in as a single force with an escort of twelve [=Ta-152s=]), and their philosophy in terms of anti-aircraft fire was to [[MoreDakka fire so many guns that]] [[UpToEleven if the shells and fragments didn't hit the attacker then the attacker hit them]]. The Stukas were wiped out, and the only reason they managed to hit the carriers (one by a 250 kg bomb from the last scout and one by a damaged Stuka that crashed on her. Only the second achieved great damage) was that the Corsairs [[IdiotBall mistook the Bearcats for Ta-152s (the paintjob was similar, and the Corsair pilots had forgot the warning they'd been given about that) and attacked them first]].\\
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As for the German carrier strike... Sitka had 32 modern Bearcats, was being reinforced by a squadron of Corsairs, and was facing less than 70 Stukas (the survivors of the recon squadron, equipped with bombs just in case and coming in piecemeal, and 30-40 properly fitted ones coming in as a single force with an escort of twelve [=Ta-152s=]), and their philosophy in terms of anti-aircraft fire was to [[MoreDakka fire so many guns that]] [[UpToEleven that if the shells and fragments didn't hit the attacker then the attacker hit them]]. The Stukas were wiped out, and the only reason they managed to hit the carriers (one by a 250 kg bomb from the last scout and one by a damaged Stuka that crashed on her. Only the second achieved great damage) was that the Corsairs [[IdiotBall mistook the Bearcats for Ta-152s (the paintjob was similar, and the Corsair pilots had forgot the warning they'd been given about that) and attacked them first]].\\
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** Another OffscreenMomentOfAwesome we're told about in the same book is the Battle of the Orkneys. In 1945 the German Navy sailed out with all their remaining surface fleet of two ''carriers'' (yes, in this timeline Germany built the carriers), five battleships, three heavy cruisers and twelve destroyers, sending bombastic messages back home-[[WhatAnIdiot and giving away their location early]]. What followed was the mother of all carrier strikes, launched by ''24 carriers'' (twenty ''Essex''-class, three Independence class VLs and two ''Gettysburgs'', this timeline's version of the ''Midway''-class). [[CurbStompBattle The German fleet ceased to be]] although it cost the carriers more than 400 aircraft to do it.
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** Another OffscreenMomentOfAwesome we're told about in the same book is the Battle of the Orkneys. In 1945 the German Navy sailed out with all their remaining surface fleet of two ''carriers'' (yes, in this timeline Germany built the carriers), five battleships, three heavy cruisers and twelve destroyers, sending bombastic messages back home-[[WhatAnIdiot and home-and giving away their location early]].early. What followed was the mother of all carrier strikes, launched by ''24 carriers'' (twenty ''Essex''-class, three Independence class VLs and two ''Gettysburgs'', this timeline's version of the ''Midway''-class). [[CurbStompBattle The German fleet ceased to be]] although it cost the carriers more than 400 aircraft to do it.
