Photos from Alternate Worlds
- Thread starter Tetsu
- Start date
- Status
*Fake Australian accent*Crikey, it's a stingray!*Fake Australian accent*
Krall
Banned
Yes.
You need to explain why SS astronauts are planting the Nazi BATTLEFLAG on the moon.
Right after the conquest of an American lunar colony during the Third World War?
Boeing's new 797 finally put the last nail in the coffin for Airbus in 2011.
(pic not mine)
Boeing's new 797 finally put the last nail in the coffin for Airbus in 2011.
(pic not mine)
Excellent. Phase two of Plan supremicy is now complete.
I assume this is the famous photo taken ten days before the fleet was decimated in harbour by the American airstrike, and then crushed by the American fleet at the Battle of of Bermuda? Tegetfhoff did well, it took out the Michigan, but The Independence caught up with it. At the time, there wasn't a ship afloat that could defeat an Independence class vessel. Admiral Conrad was brave, at least. Maybe the battle would not have done as poorly if he hadn't been killed when a 20 inch shell took out the flag bridge on the Tegetfhoff. Certainly, the Austro-Brazilian fleet being defeated by an American fleet it outnumbered by 7:4 was not pre-detirmined.
I think I have the complete order of battle for the engagment at Bermuda. It's avalible if anyone wishes to do a map of the battle.
Nice one
A photo of the first landing on the moon in 1978 by China.
True, the Austrian Fleet was annihlated there, but you forget that by that time, Austro-Hungarian industry was massive enough, that losses like that could be replaced.
Also, the naval victory did not guarantee the American victory on land yet, as the Austrians had an entire Army Group around New York City.
Anyway, here's a picture of the Tegetthoff's Revenge, built after the disaster at Bermuda, in New York harbor after it was retaken, 5 years after the previous picture. The USS Independence was sunk in an epic duel between it and 4 Austrian dreadnought off Newfoundland. The Independence was able to sink three of the dreadnoughts before Tegetthoff's Revenge scored a hit on a magazine and blew the Independence up.
That was an epic duel. Admiral Davis was a tactical genius. Do you remember the Battle of Faial, in the Azores, about 3 weeks after Bermuda? With 2 Battleships and 3 Battlecrusier's, he managed to eliminate a heavily defended (3 battleships) convoy, and then trapped the survivors of Bermuda in an ambush when the sortied from Graciosa. Like Conrad, he died a hero's death. Remember, he destroyed the Super-dreadnought Hapsburg, a superior ship to Independence or Tegetthoff's revenge in his final battle. Did you know that as the broken hull of Independence was sinking to the ocean floor, the guns in the forward turrets fired one last time? I believe they even managed to kill a light cruiser.
That duel was a pryhirric victory for Austria. Loosing 3 of their best batleships, and having the Revenge damaged was a major hole in their fleet. It did help lead to the Austrian victory of Augusta, but that also mauled a battle squadron. One wonders what might have happened if Independence and Hapsburg had both survived their duel and lived to fight in the greatest naval engagment of any age a year later: the battle of Bridgeport. Certainly, we would not have the instance of Captain Mueller on the Battleship Decateur ignoring the survivors of Tegetthoff's Revenge after destroying the ship. If you could make or find a picture or map of the battle, I would be grateful (If necessisary, I have the order of battle (I am horrible with photoshop)). Over 40 battleships, 20 battlecruisers, and 25 fleet carriers plus their escorts fighting for their lifes in the narrow waters. Long Island sound didn't get the nickname Ironbottom Sound for nothing. And when O'Reilly's squadron sealed off the exit route, it was the death kneel of the Austrian navy. They would only sorty in a strength close to their former glory twice. The first time was the 2ed Battle of Long Island, when they fleet died trying to defend the evacuation transports. If successful, it would have been an even greater feat than the Japanese miracle at Pusan, but O'Reilly managed to slip through the screen, and the Austrian fleet broke. Most of the defenders and more than half of the transports were confirmed destroyed in the slaughter that followed. The last major move was the Austrian "Death Ride" at the battle of Caligiari. They came incredibly close, but were gunned down by superior numbers, and then swamped by swarms of Aricraft. After that, the Austrian navy was effectivly non-existent.
After the destruction of the second Austrian Invasion, the war did stalemate though. The Austrians rebuilt their fleet, while conducting U-Boat warfare on American shipping. And of course, we all remeber the US's disastrous Adriatic Raid in which 10 top of the line American battleships were sunk over the course of 5 days by continuous Austrian raids.
Anyway, here is picture of the USS Colorado steaming into the Battle of Bridgeport, covered by US aircraft.
Krall
Banned
A photo of the first landing on the moon in 1978 by China.
Yay! I love ones that look professionally done!
Chris Oakley
Banned
Boeing's new 797 finally put the last nail in the coffin for Airbus in 2011.
(pic not mine)
Now that's what I call a jumbo jet!
One of the most powerful battleships in the US navy, the USS Liberty, was the flagship of the US squadron that tried to penetrate the Adriatic Sea. The plans for the raid were drawn up after the second annihlation of the Austrian fleet at Bridgeport.
The public wanted to strike back at the Austrians after years of defensive warfare, so the navy decided to send a squadron of battleships to bombard Austrian facilities at Trieste and Pola.
The total fleet gathered was 10 battleships, 20 cruisers, and 20 destroyers. The first losses came just 2 days after leaving New York, when the Austrian sub, U-89 scored three hits on the battleship, USS Tennessee, causing it tok sink after 3 hours.
Command decided to press on with the mission though, and the fleet passed through the Strait of Gibraltar without any problems.
Once the squadron entered the Adriatic, things became dicey though. The 1. Torpedoboot Squadron launched a night attack on the US fleet. The torpedo boats were able to sink five of the cruisers over the course of the night.
The day did not bring any rest for the fleet either. Hundreds of Austrian aircraft harried the US fleet throughout the day, sinking most of the destroyers and cruisers.
2 Austrian dreadnoughts then staged another night attack with 5 cruisers and destroyers. The now Rear Admiral Mueller was leading the 5th Battle squadron from the bridge of the USS Montana. A lucky shell from the Austrian battleship Prinz Eugen, hit the bridge and killed Mueller instantly. The Montana veered off course with no one in controlling the ship, and it rammed another battleship, the Florida. The damage was catastrophic with the Montana ramming at full speed. Both ships sank within the hour.
With enough destruction done for the night, the Austrian squadron retreated back to the Dalmatian maze of islands.
The next day, Admiral O'Reilly, who was commanding the entire operation, decided to attack Austrian fleet bases on the Dalmatian coast. As the fleet entered the maze of islands, several cruisers hit mines and sank. The US fleet engaged one of the hidden Austrian bases, but a duel between shore batteries and the battleships critically damaged the USS Freedom, one of the new super battleships. O'Reilly ordered the ship scuttled after it became apparent that the Freedom could not go any farther.
His fleet severly battered by the foray into Dalmatia, O'Reilly ordered his ships to retreat out of the maze of islands. He still felt that he could still reach Pola and hit the base there, so O'Reilly decided to continue on with the operation.
However, the next day, the operation was decisively stopped. Some 50 Austrian zeppelins staged a mass raid on the fleet. With orders to focus their attacks on O'Reilly's flagship, the super-dreadnought Liberty, the zeppelins scored hit after hit on the ship. After sustaining over 50 bomb hits, the Liberty exploded, as pictured here.
With O'Reilly's death the squadron started a deadly retreat back to US from which none of the battleships would make it:
The public wanted to strike back at the Austrians after years of defensive warfare, so the navy decided to send a squadron of battleships to bombard Austrian facilities at Trieste and Pola.
The total fleet gathered was 10 battleships, 20 cruisers, and 20 destroyers. The first losses came just 2 days after leaving New York, when the Austrian sub, U-89 scored three hits on the battleship, USS Tennessee, causing it tok sink after 3 hours.
Command decided to press on with the mission though, and the fleet passed through the Strait of Gibraltar without any problems.
Once the squadron entered the Adriatic, things became dicey though. The 1. Torpedoboot Squadron launched a night attack on the US fleet. The torpedo boats were able to sink five of the cruisers over the course of the night.
The day did not bring any rest for the fleet either. Hundreds of Austrian aircraft harried the US fleet throughout the day, sinking most of the destroyers and cruisers.
2 Austrian dreadnoughts then staged another night attack with 5 cruisers and destroyers. The now Rear Admiral Mueller was leading the 5th Battle squadron from the bridge of the USS Montana. A lucky shell from the Austrian battleship Prinz Eugen, hit the bridge and killed Mueller instantly. The Montana veered off course with no one in controlling the ship, and it rammed another battleship, the Florida. The damage was catastrophic with the Montana ramming at full speed. Both ships sank within the hour.
With enough destruction done for the night, the Austrian squadron retreated back to the Dalmatian maze of islands.
The next day, Admiral O'Reilly, who was commanding the entire operation, decided to attack Austrian fleet bases on the Dalmatian coast. As the fleet entered the maze of islands, several cruisers hit mines and sank. The US fleet engaged one of the hidden Austrian bases, but a duel between shore batteries and the battleships critically damaged the USS Freedom, one of the new super battleships. O'Reilly ordered the ship scuttled after it became apparent that the Freedom could not go any farther.
His fleet severly battered by the foray into Dalmatia, O'Reilly ordered his ships to retreat out of the maze of islands. He still felt that he could still reach Pola and hit the base there, so O'Reilly decided to continue on with the operation.
However, the next day, the operation was decisively stopped. Some 50 Austrian zeppelins staged a mass raid on the fleet. With orders to focus their attacks on O'Reilly's flagship, the super-dreadnought Liberty, the zeppelins scored hit after hit on the ship. After sustaining over 50 bomb hits, the Liberty exploded, as pictured here.
With O'Reilly's death the squadron started a deadly retreat back to US from which none of the battleships would make it:
- Status