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7. Tony Gibbons, The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships (New York: Crescent Books,
1983), 248–249; Erich Raeder, My Life, trans. Henry W. Drexel (Annapolis: United States Naval
Institute, 1960), 272–273; Van der Vat, The Atlantic Campaign, 60, 65–66; Weinberg, Germany,
Hitler and World War II, 85–86.
8. Bernard Ireland, Jane’s Battleships of the 20th Century (London: Harper Collins
Publishers, 1996), 40; Niklas Zetterling and Michael Tamerlander, Tirpitz: The Life and Death of
Germany’s Last Super Battleship (Philadelphia: Casemate Publishers, 2009), 53, 108, 110, 121.
9. Van der Vat, The Atlantic Campaign, 82, 93.
10. Zetterling and Tamerlander, Tirpitz, 48, 52–55.
11. John Asmussen, “Tirpitz Operational History,” Bismarck and Tirpitz, accessed 19
October 2015, http://www.bismarck-class.dk/tirpitz/tiroperationhist.html; Zetterling and Tamerlander,
Tirpitz, 48, 56.
12. Gibbons, The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships, 254–255.
13. Gibbons, The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships, 266; Janusz Skulski, Anatomy of
the Ship: The Battleship Yamato (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989), 10; Jonathan Parshall,
“Battleship Comparison,” The Imperial Japanese Navy Page: Nihon Kaigun, accessed 9 November
2015, http://www.combinedfleet.com/baddest.htm. Jonathan Parshall, an expert on the Imperial
Japanese Navy, has conducted a comparative study ranking the top World War II battleships against
one another. The results are interesting, although he appears to sell the Bismarck class short.
14. Gibbons, The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships, 255.
15. Roger Chesneau, ed., Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships, 1922-1946 (New York:
Mayflower Books, 1980), 221, 224; Parshall, “Battleship Comparison,” accessed 9 November 2015.
16. Richard Humble, “Sinking the Scharnhorst,” in History of the Second World War, ed.
B.H. Liddell Hart (London: Phoebus Publishing Ltd, 1966), 1593–1596; Vincent P. O’Hara, On Seas
Contested: The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2010),
Kindle eBook Loc. 1517–1527. The Germans used radar operationally for detection, but not for
gunnery.
17. Asmussen, “Tirpitz Operational History,” accessed 19 October 2015; Siegfried Breyer,
Battleship Tirpitz (West Chester, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 1989), 25.
18. Zetterling and Tamerlander, Tirpitz, 333–334.
19. Ibid., 26–27.
20. Ibid., 29–30.
21. Van der Vat, The Atlantic Campaign, 283.
22. Ireland, Jane’s Battleships of the 20th Century, 42–43; Van der Vat, The Atlantic
Campaign, 282–283; Zetterling and Tamerlander, Tirpitz, 121. “Pocket-battleship” was an alternate
designation for Germany’s unique 11-in. gunned cruisers, the most famous of which was perhaps Graf
Spee, scuttled early in the war.
121, 123.
23. Van der Vat, The Atlantic Campaign, 282–283; Zetterling and Tamerlander, Tirpitz,
24. Van der Vat, The Atlantic Campaign, 284–285.
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